Usage History of 'ought'

The following chart shows how frequently 'ought' appeared in printed materials over time. For example, the word 'ought' occurred 6 times in books in 1507 and 2,788,476 times in 2008. From 1507 to 2008, the word 'ought' was used a total of 57,301,138 times in books scanned by Google. See Reference: Google Ngram project.

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