The article is dedicated to one of the most important areas of quantitative studies of language and speech that is the study of information and statistical properties of text. On the basis of works by Les Martovych an attempt was made to verify impact of spelling on the relative frequency of letters in the text. A number of relevant conclusions were made.
The article is dedicated to one of the most important areas of quantitative studies of language and speech that is the study of information and statistical properties of text. An attempt was made to establish Cheremshyna’s literary works percentage sufficient to analyze relative frequencies of characters in his works and to investigate the stability of these frequencies. A number of conclusions were made about the size of text passages which may form text-sample for statistical surveys.