Usage History of 'rather'

The following chart shows how frequently 'rather' appeared in printed materials over time. For example, the word 'rather' occurred 6 times in books in 1505 and 11,011,054 times in 2008. From 1505 to 2008, the word 'rather' was used a total of 269,936,104 times in books scanned by Google. See Reference: Google Ngram project.

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