You know what's actually a really cool linguistic technology/innovation I've seen emerge in my lifetime and solve an actual problem I struggled with?

The rise of the word "Verdance".

I remember being in school and being a fantasy nerd trying to write, GM, design games and always struggling to find a word for the elemental force of plants, growth, green things, and then at some point I encountered the word Verdance and I was like "of course! That's perfect and seems so obvious in retrospect!"

And you can see it's rise in the Ngrams. I think it might have been discussing Sunless Skies things with the lovely folks at Failbetter where I first encountered it in this kind of form but there's clearly some jumps after 2010 and then 2016 and I'm curious what caused those.