Revision as of 03:45, 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

• 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

• still up: US 40 year rise / UK 40 year drop

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 in the bus vs. get on the bus: English
• get in the train vs. got on the train: UK

particles with participle

• his/her turning up: English

adverbs

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

fused heads

• and/or whatnot US / UK