Comments on: Did success peak in 2004? http://thebounder.co.uk/blog/699/did-sucess-peak-in-2004/ the home for all of jon bounds's nonsense Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:12:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jon Bounds http://thebounder.co.uk/blog/699/did-sucess-peak-in-2004/comment-page-1/#comment-248 Jon Bounds Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:11:56 +0000 http://thebounder.co.uk/?p=699#comment-248 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: <a href="http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%2522hailed+as+a+success%2522+%2522hailed+a+success%2522&btnG=Search+Archives&ned=us&hl=en&scoring=a" rel="nofollow">http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22haile...</a> 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…

]]> By: Daz http://thebounder.co.uk/blog/699/did-sucess-peak-in-2004/comment-page-1/#comment-247 Daz Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:04:58 +0000 http://thebounder.co.uk/?p=699#comment-247 Whilst it does look like you're right about 2004, does anyone really use the phrase "hailed a success"?<br><br>I would have thought the more conventional phrase is "hailed as a success".<br><br>Which also peaked in 2004.<br><br>Interestingly "hailed as success" indicates a massive dip in 2004. <br><br>There you go. 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.

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