The Unfamiliar Word
"Nero Wolfe talks in a way that no human being on the face of the earth has ever spoken, with the possible exception of Rex Stout after he had a gin and tonic," said Michael Jaffe, executive producer of the A&E TV series, A Nero Wolfe Mystery. Nero Wolfe's erudite vocabulary is one of the hallmarks of the character. Examples of unfamiliar words — or unfamiliar uses of words that some would otherwise consider familiar — are found throughout the corpus, often in the give-and-take between Wolfe and Archie. These examples occur in Too Many Cooks:
- Surprise. Chapter 1. Highly unusual in the context, but allowed by the Random House Dictionary.
- Coquine. Chapter 2.
- Sinuosities. Chapter 4.
- Werowance. Chapter 5.
- Gyves. Chapter 5.
- Gibbosity. Chapter 13.
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