How vs Root

How

name
  • A town in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States, named after Calvin F. How Jr. 

  • A surname. 

  • A hamlet in Hayton parish, City of Carlisle district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY5056). 

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 How and Root occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )