Google Ngrams

[Bannanachair]

You know that famous google Ngram for Pokemon having been a word in the 1800s that can be explained by an abundance of English to Cornish dictionaries and the fact that the word Pokemon is Cornish for clumsy? Well I tried running some starter pokemon through Google Ngrams just for fun and I have no idea what the fuck happened in 1650 that made Charmander so popular.

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I looked up "define charmander" (after running it through a translator and getting no results) to see if it had another meaning, and...



This was on the first page of results.

It's obviously a troll post if you look at the whole OP, but it's funny

[Bannanachair]

Apparently Charmander was some Greek philosopher who got half a sentence in Plato and was never mentioned again in classical literature, but was referenced a half a dozen times in the 1850s. Also, google's word-identifying program fucked up in an article in the Southern Law Review.