just messing around with Google ngram, found a surprising correlation with these two words

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just messing around with Google ngram, found a surprising correlation with these two words - Lemmy.World

Fun fact: the word “spaceman” was originally used to described a journalist who was paid by how much space they could fill. Quoting etymonline com: “journalist paid by the length of copy”.

It didn’t get used to describe a person from space until the the 1940s.

spaceman | Etymology of spaceman by etymonline

one who travels in space, from space (n.) + man (n.). Earlier it meant journalist paid… See origin and meaning of spaceman.