how's that vs pardon me

how's that

phrase
  • Used to ask someone to repeat something 

  • Used to make an appeal to the umpire as to whether the batsman is out or not 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see how, is, that. 

pardon me

phrase
  • Polite expression to ask someone to repeat an utterance. 

  • Polite expression used to soften a contradiction. 

  • Sorry; said as an apology. 

How often have the words how's that and pardon me occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )