circumflex vs wry

circumflex

adj
  • Curving around. 

  • Having a circumflex mark. 

noun
  • A diacritical mark (ˆ) placed over a vowel in the orthography or transliteration of many languages to change its pronunciation; while in some other languages over a consonant. 

verb
  • To mark or pronounce with a circumflex. 

wry

adj
  • Twisted, bent, crooked. 

  • Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place. 

  • Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). 

  • Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. 

noun
  • Distortion. 

verb
  • To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.). 

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