T'was brillig...
My LJ emailed a reminder that the inimitable GW was to
suffer a birthday on the 27th of January. So took a chance..
went to her LJ & left a note of congratulations. Discovering
there that she was attempting to concoct a pseudonym
for her (nontmnt) writings...
Reading Ciuraru's "Nom de Plume"....
encountered the factoid of the birthdate of the
Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson....
"Reflecting his obsession with wordplay since childhood, the
pseudonym was a clever transposition of his real name: "Lewis"
was the anglicized form of Ludovicus (Latin for "Lutwidge"), and
"Carroll" was an Irish surname similar to the Latin Carolus, from which
the name "Charles" is derived."
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One can hope that Donna Omeaux is aware that she
shares a birth date with the creator of "Alice" !
