From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!mitccc!svw
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Chortle
Article-I.D.: mitccc.256
Posted: Wed Jan 12 07:24:19 1983
Received: Fri Jan 14 00:51:20 1983

Carroll did invent "chortle"; my dictionary (World Book/Thorndike Barnhart)
blames it on him. A combination of "chuckle" and "snort"