Lewis Carroll

Something about Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglican deacon. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thou mayest heard the word chortal. Yes, they are mayest
before laugh chuckle chortal. Well, guess who invented it was?
Lewis Carroll invented word chortal. He put it as a
nonsense word analysis through the looking glass, meaning a combination
of a chuckle and a snort. You know that sort

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of noise. Some people irritatingly make it dinner parties and
put you off your soup. Carol referred to such a
combination of words as portmanteau words due to the resemblance
of the bag, which has two equal compartments that fasten
together in the middle.