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Jabberwocky

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"Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". [1]

164 relations: Adam Gopnik, Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), Alice in Wonderland (1951 film), Alice in Wonderland (2010 film), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alliteration, Ambient music, Ambrosia (album), Ambrosia (band), Ancient Greek, Anglo-Cornish, Anglo-Saxons, Arcade game, Augusto de Campos, Balliol College, Oxford, Bandersnatch, Bandersnatch (Known Space), Barney Gumble, Bart Simpson, Bengali language, Benjamin Jowett, Blank verse, Boeing Duveen and The Beautiful Soup, Bokeem Woodbine, Boston Latin Academy, Brian Blessed, Brothers Grimm, Chapbook, Charles Darwin, Cheshire Cat, Christopher Lee, Concrete poetry, Cornish language, Croft-on-Tees, Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, Darlington, Daws Butler, Don Raye, Douglas Adams, Douglas Hofstadter, Dragon, Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp, Dungeons & Dragons, Edward Lear, Epic poetry, Fargo (season 2), Fargo (TV series), Final Fantasy XV, Finnish language, Folktronica, ..., Frank Jacobs, Fredric Brown, G. K. Chesterton, Gödel, Escher, Bach, Gene de Paul, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gideon Mantell, Gimbal, Gimlet (tool), Griffin, H. G. Wells, Homer, Homer Simpson, How Doth the Little Crocodile, Iamb (poetry), Isle of Man, Isomorphism (sociology), JABBER: The Jabberwocky Engine, Jabberwocky (1971 film), Jabberwocky (film), Jabberwocky (musical), Jan Švankmajer, Jerkin (garment), John Tenniel, Johnny Depp, Jubjub bird, Known Space, Kuroko's Basketball, Lambton Worm, Larry Niven, LaserDisc, Latin, Lewis Carroll, Lewis Padgett, Lexicon, List of The Simpsons comics, Looking-glass world, Macmillan Publishers, Manx people, Marjorie Boulton, Martin Gardner, Martin Litchfield West, Menella Bute Smedley, Metre (poetry), Mimsy Were the Borogoves, Mirror writing, Mischmasch, Morphology (linguistics), Neologism, Nonce word, Nonnus, Nonsense verse, Nonsense word, NPR, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, One-hit wonder, Oxford English Dictionary, Paleontology, Parallel universes in fiction, Peta Sergeant, Portmanteau, Prosody (linguistics), Pterosaur, Quatrain, Random House, Resident Evil – Code: Veronica, Rhyme scheme, Rob Gifford, Roger Lancelyn Green, Rowlf the Dog, Rudyard Kipling, S. K. Azoulay, Sam Pottle, Samuel Foote, Satyajit Ray, Sauropoda, Scooter (Muppet), Semiotics, Serbo-Croatian, Slug, Sockburn, Sockburn Worm, Sonnet, Stan Freberg, Sterling Holloway, Sunderland, Syntax, Terry Gilliam, Tetrameter, The Annotated Alice, The Books, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Hunting of the Snark, The Last Mimzy, The Muppet Show, The Shepherd of the Giant Mountains, The Wonderful Visit, Thirty-nine Articles, Thorn (letter), Through the Looking-Glass, Tim Burton, Translations of Through the Looking-Glass, Trimeter, Triskelion, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat, Vogon, Vorpal sword, Whitburn, South Tyneside, White King (Through the Looking-Glass), White Queen (Through the Looking-Glass), William Shakespeare, Works based on Alice in Wonderland, You Are Old, Father William, Yuen Ren Chao. Expand index (114 more) »

Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik (born August 24, 1956) is an American writer and essayist.

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Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

Alice is a fictional character and protagonist of Lewis Carroll's children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

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Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)

Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Alice books by Lewis Carroll.

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Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)

Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay written by Linda Woolverton.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.

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Alliteration

Alliteration is a figure of speech and a stylistic literary device which is identified by the repeated sound of the first or second letter in a series of words, or the repetition of the same letter sounds in stressed syllables of a phrase.

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Ambient music

Ambient music is a genre of music that puts an emphasis on tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm.

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Ambrosia (album)

Ambrosia is the self-titled debut album by Ambrosia.

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Ambrosia (band)

Ambrosia is an American rock band formed in southern California in 1970.

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Ancient Greek

The Ancient Greek language includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.

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Anglo-Cornish

Anglo-Cornish (also known as Cornish English, Cornu-English, or Cornish dialect) is a dialect of English spoken in Cornwall by Cornish people.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.

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Arcade game

An arcade game or coin-op is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades.

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Augusto de Campos

Augusto de Campos (born 14 February 1931, São Paulo) is a Brazilian writer who (with his brother Haroldo de Campos) was a founder of the Concrete poetry movement in Brazil.

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Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College, founded in 1263,: Graduate Studies Prospectus - Last updated 17 Sep 08 is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Bandersnatch

A Bandersnatch is a fictional creature from Lewis Carroll's 1872 novel Through the Looking-Glass and 1874 poem "The Hunting of the Snark".

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Bandersnatch (Known Space)

The Bandersnatch (plural bandersnatchi) is a fictional alien species in Larry Niven's Known Space universe.

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Barney Gumble

Barnard Arnold "Barney" Gumble is a fictional character in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons.

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Bart Simpson

Bartholomew JoJo "Bart" Simpson is a fictional character in the American animated television series The Simpsons and part of the Simpson family.

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Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia.

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Benjamin Jowett

Benjamin Jowett (modern variant; 15 April 1817 – 1 October 1893) was renowned as an influential tutor and administrative reformer in the University of Oxford, a theologian and translator of Plato and Thucydides.

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Blank verse

Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter.

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Boeing Duveen and The Beautiful Soup

Boeing Duveen and the Beautiful Soup was a 1960s British psychedelic rock band.

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Bokeem Woodbine

Bokeem Woodbine (born April 13, 1973) is an American actor who is more recently known for his role as Mike Milligan on the second season of Fargo.

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Boston Latin Academy

Boston Latin Academy (BLA) is a public exam school founded in 1878 in Boston, Massachusetts providing students in grades 7th through 12th a classical preparatory education.

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Brian Blessed

Brian Blessed (born 9 October 1936) is an English actor, writer, presenter, and comedian.

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Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm (die Brüder Grimm or die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, were German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore during the 19th century.

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Chapbook

A chapbook is a type of popular literature printed in early modern Europe.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.

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Cheshire Cat

The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat popularised by Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and known for its distinctive mischievous grin.

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Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English character actor, singer, and author.

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Concrete poetry

Concrete, pattern, or shape poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance.

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Cornish language

Cornish (Kernowek) is a revived language that became extinct as a first language in the late 18th century.

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Croft-on-Tees

Croft-on-Tees is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England.

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Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs are a series of sculptures of dinosaurs and other extinct animals, incorrect by modern standards, in the London borough of Bromley's Crystal Palace Park.

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Darlington

Darlington is a large market town in County Durham, in North East England.

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Daws Butler

Charles Dawson Butler (November 16, 1916 – May 18, 1988) was an American voice actor.

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Don Raye

Don Raye (March 16, 1909 – January 29, 1985), born Donald MacRae Wilhoite, Jr., in Washington, D.C., was an American vaudevillian and songwriter, best known for his songs for the Andrews Sisters such as "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", "The House of Blue Lights", "Just for a Thrill" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." The latter was co-written with Hughie Prince.

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Douglas Adams

Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist.

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Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics.

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Dragon

A dragon is a large, serpent-like legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures around the world.

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Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp

Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp is a 1991 laserdisc video game by the Leland Corporation.

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Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&DMead, Malcomson; ''Dungeons & Dragons'' FAQ or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

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Edward Lear

Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.

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Epic poetry

An epic poem, epic, epos, or epopee is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the moral universe that their descendants, the poet and his audience, must understand to understand themselves as a people or nation.

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Fargo (season 2)

The second season of Fargo, an American anthology black comedy–crime drama television series created by Noah Hawley, premiered on October 12, 2015, on the basic cable network FX.

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Fargo (TV series)

Fargo is an American black comedy–crime drama anthology television series created and primarily written by Noah Hawley.

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Final Fantasy XV

Final Fantasy XV is an action role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix; the game is the fifteenth main installment in the company's Final Fantasy series.

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Finnish language

Finnish (or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside Finland.

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Folktronica

Folktronica is a genre of music comprising various elements of folk music and electronica, often featuring uses of acoustic instruments – especially stringed instruments – and incorporating hip hop or dance rhythms, although it varies based on influences and choice of sounds.

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Frank Jacobs

Frank Jacobs (born 1929) is an American author of satires, known primarily for his work in Mad, to which he has contributed since 1957.

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Fredric Brown

Fredric Brown (October 29, 1906 – March 11, 1972) was an American science fiction and mystery writer.

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G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic.

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Gödel, Escher, Bach

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, also known as GEB, is a 1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter.

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Gene de Paul

Gene Vincent de Paul (June 17, 1919 – February 27, 1988) was an American pianist, composer and songwriter.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets.

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Gideon Mantell

Gideon Algernon Mantell MRCS FRS (3 February 1790 – 10 November 1852) was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist.

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Gimbal

A gimbal is a pivoted support that allows the rotation of an object about a single axis.

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Gimlet (tool)

A gimlet is a hand tool for drilling small holes, mainly in wood, without splitting.

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Griffin

The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Greek: γρύφων, grýphōn, or γρύπων, grýpōn, early form γρύψ, grýps; gryphus) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and an eagle's talons as its front feet.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.

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Homer Simpson

Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons as the patriarch of the eponymous family.

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How Doth the Little Crocodile

"How Doth the Little Crocodile" is a poem by Lewis Carroll which appears in his novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

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Iamb (poetry)

An iamb or iambus is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry.

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Isle of Man

The Isle of Man (Ellan Vannin), also known simply as Mann (Mannin), is a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Isomorphism (sociology)

In sociology, an isomorphism is a similarity of the processes or structure of one organization to those of another, be it the result of imitation or independent development under similar constraints.

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JABBER: The Jabberwocky Engine

JABBER: The Jabberwocky Engine is a Java program created by Neil Hennessy, a poet and new media artist.

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Jabberwocky (1971 film)

Jabberwocky (Žvahlav aneb šatičky slaměného Huberta) is a 1971 Czechoslovak animated short film written and directed by Jan Švankmajer, based loosely on the poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll.

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Jabberwocky (film)

Jabberwocky is a 1977 British fantasy film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam.

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Jabberwocky (musical)

Jabberwocky, an adult pantomime by Andrew Kay, Malcolm Middleton and Peter Phillips, is a musical based on the English poem of the same name by Lewis Carroll.

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Jan Švankmajer

Jan Švankmajer (born 4 September 1934) is a Czech filmmaker and artist whose work spans several media.

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Jerkin (garment)

A jerkin is a man's short close-fitting jacket, made usually of light-coloured leather, and often without sleeves, worn over the doublet in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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John Tenniel

Sir John Tenniel (28 February 1820 – 25 February 1914)Johnson, Lewis (2003).

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Johnny Depp

John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, producer, and musician.

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Jubjub bird

The Jubjub bird is a dangerous creature mentioned in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poems "Jabberwocky" and "The Hunting of the Snark".

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Known Space

Known Space is the fictional setting of about a dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by Larry Niven.

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Kuroko's Basketball

Kuroko's Basketball, known in Japan as, is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Tadatoshi Fujimaki.

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Lambton Worm

The Lambton Worm is a legend from County Durham in North East England in the UK.

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Larry Niven

Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer.

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LaserDisc

LaserDisc (abbreviated as LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision in the United States in 1978.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer.

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Lewis Padgett

Lewis Padgett was the joint pseudonym of the science fiction authors and spouses Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, taken from their mothers' maiden names.

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Lexicon

A lexicon, word-hoard, wordbook, or word-stock is the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge (such as nautical or medical).

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List of The Simpsons comics

The following is a list of comic book series based on the animated TV show The Simpsons and published by Bongo Comics in the United States.

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Looking-glass world

The looking-glass world is the setting for Lewis Carroll's 1871 children's novel Through the Looking-Glass.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

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Manx people

The Manx (ny Manninee) are people originating in the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea in northern Europe.

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Marjorie Boulton

Marjorie Boulton (7 May 1924 – 30 August 2017) was a British author and poet writing in both English and Esperanto.

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Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer, with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature—especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton.

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Martin Litchfield West

Martin Litchfield West, (23 September 1937 – 13 July 2015) was a British classical scholar.

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Menella Bute Smedley

Menella Bute Smedley (1820–1877) was a novelist and poet.

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Metre (poetry)

In poetry, metre is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.

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Mimsy Were the Borogoves

"Mimsy Were the Borogoves" is a science fiction short story by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym of American writers Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore), originally published in the February 1943 issue of Astounding Science Fiction Magazine.

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Mirror writing

Mirror writing is formed by writing in the direction that is the reverse of the natural way for a given language, such that the result is the mirror image of normal writing: it appears normal when it is reflected in a mirror.

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Mischmasch

Mischmasch was a periodical that Lewis Carroll wrote and illustrated for the amusement of his family from 1855 to 1862.

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Morphology (linguistics)

In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language.

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Neologism

A neologism (from Greek νέο- néo-, "new" and λόγος lógos, "speech, utterance") is a relatively recent or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use, but that has not yet been fully accepted into mainstream language.

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Nonce word

A nonce word (also called an occasionalism) is a lexeme created for a single occasion to solve an immediate problem of communication.

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Nonnus

Nonnus of Panopolis (Νόννος ὁ Πανοπολίτης, Nónnos ho Panopolítēs) was a Greek epic poet of Hellenized Egypt of the Imperial Roman era.

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Nonsense verse

Nonsense verse is a form of nonsense literature usually employing strong prosodic elements like rhythm and rhyme.

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Nonsense word

A nonsense word, unlike a sememe, may have no definition.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland is an American fantasy-drama series that aired on ABC from October 10, 2013 to April 3, 2014.

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One-hit wonder

A one-hit wonder is any entity that achieves mainstream popularity and success for a very short period of time, often for only one piece of work, and becomes known among the general public solely for that momentary success.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.

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Paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Parallel universes in fiction

A parallel universe is a hypothetical self-contained reality co-existing with one's own.

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Peta Sergeant

Peta Sergeant is an Australian actress best known for her lead role in the Australian television series Satisfaction.

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Portmanteau

A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words,, p. 644 in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel.

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Prosody (linguistics)

In linguistics, prosody is concerned with those elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments (vowels and consonants) but are properties of syllables and larger units of speech.

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Pterosaur

Pterosaurs (from the Greek πτερόσαυρος,, meaning "winged lizard") were flying reptiles of the extinct clade or order Pterosauria.

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Quatrain

A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines.

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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Resident Evil – Code: Veronica

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky

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