Comments on: Poll :: A Vocabulary Quiz from Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree

By: wnu

wnu — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:07:48 +0000

Nice on hawsers and whelk. I only knew stele is a monument of sorts. The prologue is especially tricky, but the rest of the book still averages about one baffling word per page or two.

By: mrjellyfish

mrjellyfish — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:01:39 +0000

I knew a chapbook was some not very specific kind of book, and I guessed a dogwhelk was a kind of whelk (and I knew a whelk was some kind of mollusk). So I might give myself 1.25 out of 10.

By: herocious

herocious — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:43:30 +0000

I know that hawsers is a kind of rope. I’m guessing that chapbook is the Bible.