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Why: In The Road by Cormac McCarthy:
He descended into a gryke in the stone and there he crouched coughing and he coughed for a long time.Answer: Also spelled grike, it's a cleft in limestone.
Source: Encarta
The More You Know: Why does McCarthy use all these weird spellings? He grew up in Tennessee, for Pete's sake.
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