pardon me vs please

pardon me

phrase
  • Polite expression used to soften a contradiction. 

  • Polite expression to ask someone to repeat an utterance. 

  • Sorry; said as an apology. 

please

adv
  • An expression of annoyance or impatience. 

  • Said as a request to repeat information. 

  • Used to make a polite request. 

  • Used as an affirmative to an offer. 

verb
  • To desire; to will; to be pleased by. 

  • To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to. 

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