Revision as of 05:33, 4 April 2011

Google n-grams

particles

• turn up: US / UK
• acting up: US / UK
• his/her move out / his/her move up: NB: American English
• broke(n) up: US / UK
• broke(n) down: US / UK
• back up: US / UK
• back down: US / UK
• back over: US / UK
• move down: US / UK
• stand down: US / UK
• bring up / upbringing: US / UK
• reach out / outreach: US / UK

• stand with US / UK (stark decrease)
• talk with / talk to: US / UK
• talk over / talk through: US / UK
• talk it over / talk it through / talk it out : US / UK
• let it out: US / UK
• let it all out: US / UK
• still up: US 40 year rise / UK 40 year drop
• right back (up/down) to: US / UK
• right out / back out / all out: US / UK
• it all down: US / UK
• totally up: US / UK: NB: the curve for totally does not follow this pattern
• on over to: US (10x more frequent than in UK)

get

• get down US / UK
• get it down US (1x 10^-5) / UK (seems more prevalent in UK 1800)
• get it done US sharp rise after 1950 / UK
• get it back US / UK

• get it over with US / UK (sharp rise 1900-1940)
• get over it US / UK
• get on/off US / UK
• get (on/along) well: US / UK

• get in the bus vs. get on the bus: English
• get in the train vs. got on the train: UK
• get (in(to) / out (of)): US / UK

• get seen: US / UK
• get heard: US / UK

Causatives

• (get him to / ask him to / have him / make him) call US (have him call)/ UK (ask him to call)
• get him to stop,ask him to stop,have him stop,make him stop: US / UK
• get him to consider,ask him to consider,have him consider,make him consider: US / UK
• get (him/her/myself) going: US / UK
• (get/have) him (fired/sacked): US / UK

particles with participle

• his/her turning up: English

==subjunctive vs. modal

• suggested he (should) go: US / UK

adverbs

• afterward(s) US / UK
• until / up to / till: UK 1905 till = until / US 1855 till = until

connectors

nevertheless,nonetheless,moreover,furthermore US / UK

fused heads

• and/or whatnot US / UK