Back then, a “portmanteau” was a suitcase, one that opened into two sections. But Carroll’s “portmanteau” has made it into mainstream dictionaries, as have several other words that Carroll made up for ...

Unlike the federal budget, which presidents must sign as-is, or veto entirely, Ohio lets governors veto individual parts of ...

They're going to turn the words into jabberwocky anyway." — Geoff Nunberg, "I Pledge Allegiance to Linguistic Obfuscation," NPR, March 30, 2010. 6. mimsy .

Almost everyone around here knows the excellent bookstore of that name. Most people probably know where the name came from, or at least have stood in uffish thought about it.

O frabjous day! On July 4th Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland birthed words like ‘chortle,’ ‘galumph,’ and ‘snark,’ now ...

A colorful new Alice ballet, with an enormous Jabberwocky puppet Washington Ballet is preparing for its extravaganza of a production, “Alice (in Wonderland).” April 18, 2025 ...

Yesterday, we reported the cancellation of ATP’s Jabberwocky Festival. Cancelled festivals inevitably lead to confusion among those who purchased tickets, the bands who were booked to play, and ...

Several things made Syracuse University’s iconic underground nightclub Jabberwocky impossible to forget. First, there was the great music, performed by rising artists like Bonnie Raitt, Cyndi ...

Several things made Syracuse University’s iconic underground nightclub Jabberwocky impossible to forget. First, there was the great music, performed by rising artists like Bonnie Raitt, Cyndi ...

JABBERWOCKY. Prior to its 1871 print debut, jabberwocky was a nonsense word that served as the nonsense title of a nonsense poem in Through the Looking-Glass.

The dragon-like Jabberwocky is curled up in a corner, but Wonderland is in frabjous spirits in this Washington Ballet rehearsal room. To the strains of composer Gustav Holst, the Mad Hatter and ...