I really wish they’d use engineering notation for those tiny tiny numbers.
Currently, sheeple is skyrocketing at about 6 occurrences in a billion words and climbing. Before that, it had been clawing its way up from nothing since about 1975. But the weird part is that blip of about 1.5 occurrences per billion in the 40s and 50s. With numbers that small, it’s hard to gauge the actual number of occurrences, but it doesn’t look inconsequential, even compared to 2000. What happened there? Was it coined and then temporarily lost?
Also, what happened around 1910? Was that a typo? Did someone try to write steeple and miss?
