: Re: Are there any websites that show you the popularity and regional use of words? There are some words and phrases in my manuscript that I think are used in America. However, a beta reader tells

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Google's Ngram Viewer can be used to show the relative popularity of a word or phrase in its various collections over time, and it does have American and British English corpora.

E.g. 'mum' comes in at 0.00001% in the American English corpus in 2000, and 0.00003% in British English, so one can surmise it's a British spelling; 'freak out' is distinctly American, at 0.000012% compared to the British 0.000004%.

There is, of course, a degree of cross-pollination, especially with more recent data, but it's a good starting point.

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