| Rare Words In Shakespeare |
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.056 Wednesday, 8 February 2012
[1] From: Steve Roth < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > Date: February 8, 2012 12:40:54 AM EST Subject: Re: Rare Words In Shakespeare
[2] From: Hardy M. Cook < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Subject: Rare Words In Shakespeare
[1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Steve Roth < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > Date: February 8, 2012 12:40:54 AM EST Subject: Re: Rare Words In Shakespeare
@John Alvord:
The file you want is rarewords.txt.
http://gabrielegan.com/shaxican/Roth's%20Refinements/rarewords.txt
Includes words (actually, strings) used 2-12 times in the corpus, and the # of occurrences for each word. 11,051 lines.
Throw a pivot table at it and you get this:
# of occurrences # of words with that occur this many times 2 3711 3 1954 4 1364 5 988 6 760 7 553 8 474 9 409 10 329 11 273 12 235
Thanks, Steve
[2]------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hardy M. Cook < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Subject: Rare Words In Shakespeare
My “Selected Guide to Shakespeare on the Internet” has a number of interesting sites related to words in the Concordances and Research Sites sections:
http://shaksper.net/scholarly-resources/shakespeare-on-the-internet
I am particularly fond of David and Ben Crystal’s Explore Shakespeare’s Words site with its amazing Glossary from their book Shakespeare’s Words: A Glossary and Language Companion:
http://www.shakespeareswords.com/Default.aspx and especially http://www.shakespeareswords.com/Glossary
I don’t seem to have a site that has rare words though.
In the near, future I plan to update this list, checking the existing links and adding other useful sites.
Hardy |