Twitter in Wonderland

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Permalink Reply by Jan Kozlowski on May 22, 2009 at 1:27pm

Karen Hesse, A. Michelle and I once (spontaneously and from memory) recited Jabberwocky in front of the entire Whispering Pines Retreat. We did disagree on the pronunciation of "Slithy" though!

Keep mimsy-ing those borogoves and may your mome raths...hey, isn't that Mary's screen name???...always outgrabe!!!

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Permalink Reply by Greg R. Fishbone on May 22, 2009 at 1:48pm

Love that poem. One of my favorites.

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Permalink Reply by Mary Pierce on May 22, 2009 at 7:19pm

Why, yes Jan. Yes, it is my screen name. Now you know. Jabberwocky is my absolute favorite poem ever (I, too, know it by heart.)! And it's slithy with a long i sound. Thanks for the link, Greg. I am (@momeraths) following @publicdomain. Great idea. Almost as good a use of Twitter as Tweet Mystery of Death!

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Permalink Reply by Greg R. Fishbone on May 22, 2009 at 9:43pm

I agree with the long-i slithy. And how could anyone read that poem and not want to memorize it?

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Permalink Reply by Dawn Metcalf on May 25, 2009 at 11:11am

Oh. I always pronounced it with a short 'i'. ;-)

To-MAY-to, To-MAH-to?

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Permalink Reply by Greg R. Fishbone on May 26, 2009 at 12:32pm

from Lewis Carrol's preface to The Hunting of the Snark:

[Let] me take this opportunity of answering a question that has often been asked me, how to pronounce "slithy toves." The "i" in "slithy" is long, as in "writhe"; and "toves" is pronounced so as to rhyme with "groves." Again, the first "o" in "borogoves" is pronounced like the "o" in "borrow." I have heard people try to give it the sound of the "o" in "worry." Such is Human Perversity.

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Permalink Reply by Mary Pierce on May 26, 2009 at 1:44pm

Aha! I knew I was sure of my pronunciation for a reason, that I had in fact read the correct pronunciation somewhere. I just couldn't remember where. Thanks, Greg.

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