M vs R

M

character
  • The thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script. 

noun
  • the number of minutes a player spent at the crease 

  • Monsieur 

  • A film with the content rating M. 

  • the number of maiden overs bowled 

name
  • Michigan. 

R

character
  • The eighteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script. 

noun
  • rex (“king”) or regina (“queen”); the initial by which a British monarch signs documents after his or her name 

  • the Crown, the government of a monarchy (abbreviating rex (“king”) or regina (“queen”)) 

  • rook 

  • Thursday 

  • Republican 

  • ring 

  • runs, the statistic reporting the number of runs scored by a player 

  • radius 

adj
  • right (as opposed to left) 

  • reverse 

  • restricted 

name
  • In the context of the documentary hypothesis, the Redactor(s) who compiled and edited the Torah. 

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