Size of Cormac McCarthy's Vocabulary John Sepich (author…
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Size of Cormac McCarthy's Vocabulary
John Sepich (author of notes on Blood meridian) did an extensive study in recording all unique words in McCarthy's vocabulary.
Does not include The Passenger and Stella maris
Total unique word count - 30,069
Unique words used exclusively in single books - 16,093
Words only ever used once across the entire corpus - 13,384
Words only ever used twice across the entire corpus - 4,313
His last two novels would have pushed this further up.
For comparison, Shakespeare's mythically large vocabulary is estimated at around \~30,000 unique words across all his published works.
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John Sepich (author of notes on Blood meridian) did an extensive study in recording all unique words in McCarthy's vocabulary.
Does not include The Passenger and Stella maris
Total unique word count - 30,069
Unique words used exclusively in single books - 16,093
Words only ever used once across the entire corpus - 13,384
Words only ever used twice across the entire corpus - 4,313
His last two novels would have pushed this further up.
For comparison, Shakespeare's mythically large vocabulary is estimated at around \~30,000 unique words across all his published works.
#entertainment
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