The Google Books Ngram Viewer is a tool that visualizes the frequency of words and phrases (n-grams) as they appear in a massive corpus of digitized books over time. It essentially creates a line graph showing how often a specific word or phrase has been used in books published across a selected date range. This allows users to explore language trends, track the evolution of word usage, and potentially gain insights into cultural and historical shifts. It has the myths and legends that are are always created to explain a strange human experience. What's truly amazing is that some of these explanations resonate so clearly with human minds that the idea of them last for centuries. It also has common phrases and idioms that have stood the test of time. That these piece of advice, such as a stitch in time saves nine, have lasted so long is proof of their usefulness. You could do a lot worse than listen to what 'the old wives' have to say.