Dr Bill (wwh) sent me a piece of information about 'chortle' that was new to me:

I remembered it from Lewis Carroll, but didn't know he had coined it.

“‘O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!’ He chortled in his joy.”

Perhaps Lewis Carroll would chortle a bit himself to find that people are still using the word chortle, which he coined in Through the Looking-Glass, published in 1872.


Thanks Bill.