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From: jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen)
Subject: Re: "JABBERWOCKY" kanji 
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rmc@wang.com (rmc) writes:

>jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) asks:

>>Iain Sinclair has identified a lot of entries in
>>Spahn & Hadamitsky, a few of which have English meanings which are
>>nonsense words invented by Lewis Carrol, in his famous 
>>"Jabberwocky" poem.
>>
>>Can anyone throw any light on:
>>(a) what the actual "meanings" of the kanji are;
>>(b) how they came to get their "Jabberwocky" tags?
>>Here are the ones I have:

>It is conceivable that these are copyright codes, entries containing
>incorrect information that are added merely to be able to prove that a
>given copy was a straight copy without understanding rather than
>coincidental identical wording of factual information.  

I think Mark is correct.

What a good thing our rigorous standards of lexicography precluded straight
copying from such a reference work. 8-)}

BTW, can anyone provide some *real* information on those kanji?

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