"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Knowledge 137 "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!” He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought— So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!_ One, two! One, two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. “And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy. Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. The Jabberwocky Spell Check Microsoft Verdict on the Poem 39 of the 166 words in the poem are unknown to Word’s spelling checker and this is an optimistic analysis of how the algorithm would fare. Many of the words are in the spelling checker because of the poem: galumphing, for example. Lewis Carroll’s work was sufficiently influential that part of HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015827