bother vs negligence

bother

noun
  • Trouble, inconvenience. 

  • Fuss, ado. 

intj
  • A mild expression of annoyance. 

verb
  • To do something which is of negligible inconvenience. 

  • To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome. 

  • To annoy, to disturb, to irritate. 

negligence

noun
  • The state of being negligent. 

  • The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation. 

  • The tort whereby a duty of reasonable care was breached, causing damage: any conduct short of intentional or reckless action that falls below the legal standard for preventing unreasonable injury. 

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