shipman effect
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A cultural change in the field of medicine sparked by the conviction of Harold Shipman in 2000 for murdering his patients, and the formal recommendations from the subsequent Shipman Inquiry.
British usage
Usage
- British usage
Inflected Forms
the Shipman effect (canonical)