tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post5860769274160766591..comments2024-03-28T14:36:46.155+00:00Comments on Retro-Forteana: Fortean TrendsAndrew Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-61932462584597025892014-07-14T19:32:36.197+01:002014-07-14T19:32:36.197+01:00Thanks Joshua - I wasn't aware of that last po...Thanks Joshua - I wasn't aware of that last point, but it's probably highly relevant. Although the N-gram viewer says it's based on digitized "books", it almost certainly includes certain types of periodicals as well. So if the Fortean Society produced a regular journal, with 6 or 12 issues per year, and then suddenly stopped putting it out, that might easily explain the sudden drop.Andrew Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-62621317085428174572014-07-14T19:14:10.250+01:002014-07-14T19:14:10.250+01:00The uptick in the use of the word 'Fortean'...The uptick in the use of the word 'Fortean' in the early 1950s is almost certainly a by-product of all the UFO books being published then, many of them making reference to Fort or the Fortean Society.<br /><br />As far as the decline at the end of the decade, it's worth noting that Tiffany Thayer, who ran the Fortean Society, died in August 1959, and the Society went defunct.JoshuaBBuhshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08621321755036209414noreply@blogger.com