-ese vs -th

-ese

suffix
  • Used to form nouns meaning the jargon used by a particular profession or in a particular context. 

  • Used to form adjectives and nouns describing things and characteristics of a city, region, or country, such as the people and the language spoken by these people. 

-th

suffix
  • Used to form nouns from verbs of action. 

  • Used to form a term denoting the ordinal numeral corresponding to the value, being a natural number, of a mathematical expression. 

  • Used to form the ordinal numeral when the final term of the spelled number is not “first”, “second”, or “third”. 

How often have the words -ese and -th occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )