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"