RE vs rather than

RE

prep
  • Regarding, re. 

noun
  • Abbreviation of "recursively enumerable"; the class of decision problems for which a 'yes' answer can be verified by a Turing machine in a finite amount of time. 

rather than

prep
  • instead of; in preference to. 

conj
  • And not. 

  • Used to indicate that the following alternative is less preferred. 

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