DISQUS

the bounder: Did sucess peak in 2004?

  • Daz · 4 months ago
    Whilst it does look like you're right about 2004, does anyone really use the phrase "hailed a success"?

    I would have thought the more conventional phrase is "hailed as a success".

    Which also peaked in 2004.

    Interestingly "hailed as success" indicates a massive dip in 2004.

    There you go.
  • Jon Bounds · 4 months ago
    I think you tend to lose the "as" in headlines. This is a combined search that dos indeed suggest that the world has steadily got less successful since 2004: http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22haile...