Lewis Carroll
(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There,1872)
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought... (contd.)
...When Lewis Caroll wanted to use the right language, he just invented them.
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