Media and commentary
Ars Technica
0.7× since 2022arstechnica.com · 22,664 posts · 13.4M words · Aug 1998 to Sep 2026
331 of 338 months in that span carried a post, 7 none. 2 pages refused this crawler. 69 loaded without countable prose.
Per 1k words, 2024–now
3.09
Per 1k words, 2018–2022
4.29
Em dashes counted
42,822
Posts with at least one
48%
Em dashes per post
Monthly2.68
12-month average2.33
Ars Technica, latest month in the corpusBy year
En dashes are counted alongside as a control: if em dashes climb while en dashes hold flat, that is a change in writing style rather than a change in typography.
| Year | Posts | Em dashes | Per 1k words | En per 1k | Share of posts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 668 | 1,554 | 3.00 | 0.12 | 59% |
| 2025 | 911 | 2,258 | 3.12 | 0.13 | 63% |
| 2024 | 923 | 2,263 | 3.12 | 0.15 | 62% |
| 2023 | 917 | 2,149 | 3.11 | 0.26 | 59% |
| 2022 | 911 | 2,118 | 3.48 | 0.10 | 61% |
| 2021 | 919 | 2,733 | 4.28 | 0.16 | 63% |
| 2020 | 919 | 3,722 | 5.13 | 0.13 | 72% |
| 2019 | 923 | 2,657 | 4.23 | 0.19 | 66% |
| 2018 | 933 | 2,821 | 4.22 | 0.16 | 63% |
| 2017 | 929 | 2,468 | 4.06 | 0.22 | 59% |
| 2016 | 931 | 2,414 | 4.30 | 0.06 | 61% |
| 2015 | 932 | 2,351 | 4.19 | 0.19 | 60% |
| 2014 | 924 | 1,986 | 3.87 | 0.05 | 54% |
| 2013 | 925 | 1,990 | 3.57 | 1.53 | 54% |
| 2012 | 934 | 1,942 | 3.47 | 0.09 | 54% |
| 2011 | 916 | 1,947 | 3.72 | 0.04 | 58% |
| 2010 | 917 | 1,665 | 3.53 | 0.03 | 55% |
| 2009 | 933 | 1,209 | 3.12 | 0.14 | 46% |
| 2008 | 939 | 727 | 2.10 | 0.17 | 33% |
| 2007 | 936 | 763 | 2.35 | 0.27 | 35% |
| 2006 | 930 | 405 | 1.25 | 0.26 | 23% |
| 2005 | 865 | 223 | 0.65 | 0.36 | 15% |
| 2004 | 797 | 106 | 0.25 | 0.23 | 8% |
| 2003 | 824 | 135 | 0.36 | 0.88 | 7% |
| 2002 | 755 | 71 | 0.27 | 1.40 | 3% |
| 2001 | 194 | 60 | 0.49 | 1.31 | 6% |
| 2000 | 36 | 56 | 0.44 | 0.86 | 39% |
| 1999 | 19 | 18 | 0.40 | 1.05 | 21% |
| 1998 | 4 | 11 | 2.13 | 1.55 | 25% |