Mere vs Read

Mere

name
  • A village and civil parish in northern Cheshire East, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7381). 

  • A small town and civil parish with a town council in south-west Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8132). 

  • A sub-municipality in East Flanders, Belgium. 

Read

name
  • A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7634). 

  • A township in Butler County, Nebraska, United States. 

  • An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States. 

  • A surname from Old English, a less common spelling variant of Reid. 

  • A township in Clayton County, Iowa, United States. 

  • A male given name transferred from the surname. 

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