A Picture is Actually Worth 50,123 Words

11 wisdom from the crowd — Confirmed (Or NOT) by Google Books Ngram

Thanks to Google Books Ngram, we’re finally able to perform a meta-study of proverbs and idioms. Is it water under the bridge now, or can we still benefit from the crowd’s wisdom? Let us check!

1. A picture is worth a thousand words

It might have been the case when pictures first appeared in 1827, but right now, based on 2019 data,