active · lexical · first recorded 2026-07-02 · registers: cooking, parenting
The enumerate-everything opener: “A few things to keep in mind…”. Precedes the bullet pileup. 3× the human rate.
Common in human writing too — low weight.
◑ appears in good human writing too (collateral score 0.34 — the closer to 1, the more it also fires on acclaimed pre-AI prose)
…That said, there are some practical guidelines: A few days to a week at room temperature…
occurrences per 10k words, measured 2026-07 (run #2: 3 current + 3 vintage models, 3 matched registers, 1,392 samples)
| current AI | vintage AI (2024/25) | humans (matched) | canon (great pre-AI prose) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pooled | 12.96 | 6.86 | 6.91 | 4.40 |
| hn | 8.22 | — | 8.10 | |
| cooking | 23.21 | — | 8.10 | |
| parenting | 13.45 | — | 4.45 | |
| 3.26 | — | — |
literal: a few