Rock vs Stone

Rock

name
  • A village and civil parish in Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO7371). 

  • A hamlet in Curry Mallet parish, South Somerset district and North Curry parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST3222). 

  • A hamlet in Blackwood community, Caerphilly county borough (OS grid ref ST1898). 

  • A village in Rennington parish, northern Northumberland (OS grid ref NU2020). 

  • A town in Rock County, Wisconsin. 

  • Nickname of Gibraltar. 

  • A number of townships in the United States, listed under Rock Township. 

  • A hamlet in Membury parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST2702). 

  • The Rock, a village south-west of Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. 

  • An unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia. 

  • A town in Wood County, Wisconsin. 

  • A topographic surname from Middle English for someone living near a rock or an oak ( atter + oke ). 

  • An unincorporated community in Maple Ridge Township, Delta County, Michigan. 

  • A coastal village in St Minver Lowlands parish, north Cornwall (OS grid ref SW9375). 

  • Nickname of Uluru. 

  • Nickname of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. 

  • A hamlet north-east of Cwmavon, Neath Port Talbot county borough (OS grid ref SS7993). 

  • An unincorporated community in Cowley County, Kansas. 

  • A male given name transferred from the surname. 

  • Nickname of the prison on Alcatraz Island, USA. 

  • A hamlet in Washington parish, Horsham district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ1214). 

Stone

name
  • A village and civil parish in Wyre Forest district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO8575). 

  • An unincorporated community in Wisconsin. 

  • A market town in Stafford borough, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ9034). 

  • An English occupational and habitational surname from Old English, for someone who lived near a stone worked with stone, from Old English stan. 

  • A male given name 

  • An unincorporated community in Indiana. 

  • An unincorporated community in California. 

  • An unincorporated community in Kentucky; named for coal businessman Galen L. Stone. 

  • A village and civil parish in Dartford borough, Kent (OS grid ref TQ5774). 

  • A village in Buckinghamshire. 

  • A village in Gloucestershire. 

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