statement vs tale

statement

noun
  • A presentation of opinion or position. 

  • A declaration or remark. 

  • An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call. 

  • A document that summarizes financial activity. 

verb
  • To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs. 

tale

noun
  • A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. 

  • The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim. 

  • A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration. 

  • An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie. 

verb
  • To reckon; consider (someone) to have something. 

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