Recently revisited Lewis Carrol’s famous “Jabberwocky” poem. Some claim this poem is the greatest “nonsense poem” of all time. Carrol made up many of the words by combining sounds and letters from two or more words.
- “‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
- Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
- All mimsy were the borogoves,
- And the mome raths outgrabe.”
- Mimsy = miserable & flimsy
- Slithy – Combination of “slimy” and “lithe.”
- Do any of these nonsense words seem a bit familiar? Are our favorite webtreprenuers using “portmanteau” (fuses two or more words or word parts to give a combined or loaded meaning) to create their website names?
- Eventful? YouTube? Blinksale? Fotki? BitTorrent?
- Beginning to sound a bit like a Lewis Carroll poem, eh?
