Sure is. :) I'm a read-aloud-in-my-head kind of reader, and I remember really struggling with that one in Moby Dick. (It's "fo'c'sle," by the way, sometimes e

Sure is. :) I'm a read-aloud-in-my-head kind of reader, and I remember really struggling with that one in Moby Dick. (It's "fo'c'sle," by the way, sometimes even encountered as "fo'c's'le." In the latter case, I wonder why simply writing "forecastle" wasn't the easier choice back in the day).