Usage History of 'or'

The following chart shows how frequently 'or' appeared in printed materials over time. For example, the word 'or' occurred 238 times in books in 1505 and 143,630,659 times in 2008. From 1505 to 2008, the word 'or' was used a total of -628,146,470 times in books scanned by Google. See Reference: Google Ngram project.

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