 Its playful, whimsical language has given English nonsense words and neologisms such as "galumphing" and "chortle".A decade before the publication of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and the sequel "Through the Looking-Glass", Carroll wrote the first stanza to what would become "Jabberwocky" while in Croft on Tees, close to Darlington, where he lived as a child.It was printed in 1855 in "Mischmasch", a periodical he wrote and illustrated for the amusement of his family.