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PlanetScale
0.7× since 2022planetscale.com · 285 posts · 342k words · Mar 2020 to Jul 2026
65 of 77 months in that span carried a post, 12 none. 16 loaded without countable prose.
Per 1k words, 2024–now
1.14
Per 1k words, 2018–2022
1.61
Em dashes counted
405
Posts with at least one
32%
Em dashes per post
Monthly0.14
12-month average1.71
PlanetScale, 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 | 32 | 73 | 1.37 | 0.09 | 41% |
| 2025 | 31 | 16 | 0.41 | 0.20 | 26% |
| 2024 | 41 | 81 | 1.42 | 0.02 | 37% |
| 2023 | 78 | 87 | 0.91 | 0.16 | 32% |
| 2022 | 68 | 114 | 1.66 | 0.29 | 31% |
| 2021 | 20 | 14 | 1.07 | 1.68 | 25% |
| 2020 | 15 | 20 | 1.34 | 0.00 | 27% |