Flint vs Root

Flint

name
  • A town in Flintshire, Wales, by the estuary of the River Dee (OS grid ref SJ2472). 

  • A city, the county seat of Genesee County, Michigan, United States. 

  • A surname. 

  • An unincorporated community in Smith County, Texas, United States. 

Root

name
  • A river in Wisconsin, United States. 

  • A town in Lucerne canton, Switzerland. 

  • A river in Minnesota, United States; named as a translation of its native Dakota name. 

  • A town in New York, United States; named for lawyer and politician Erastus Root. 

  • A habitational surname from Dutch for someone living near a retting place (Dutch root, from roten (“to ret”)). 

  • An English surname from Middle English from a byname from Middle English rote (“glad”). 

  • An English surname originating as an occupation for a rote (medieval guitar)-player. 

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