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	Dust worms are visibly abundant around stars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This chortle (lower left shown along with another of a bold single circumpherence) is in a cluster of 12 chortles seen in one hemisphere at Vega.
		These are being called 'chortles' due to their unique coherent shape which has no description in the glossary of astronomy objects nor in any theory of objects orbiting stars circ July 2004.
		The chortle pairs are not evenly distributed in distances out from the star, so also we know the chortles do not orbit a common radius out from the star in a necklace strung out one pair behind the other.
	www.cosmicastronomy.com /flyers.htm (3114 words)

	Previous Columns/Posted 04/17/98
		"Chortle" more specifically means to chuckle or laugh in a cheerful, kindly and joyful way, and I think that shade of meaning may be why we don't see "chortle" very often these days.
		That's a shame, because "chortle" is a remarkable word, among the very few English words that are known to have been coined by a specific person.
		It was never entirely clear what Carroll meant by "chortle" (though the Oxford English Dictionary theorizes that the word is a combination of "chuckle" and "snort"), but that didn't stop people in the late 19th century from adopting the word.
	www.word-detective.com /041798.html (3529 words)

	Define Chortle : powered by In Dictionary (InDicitonary.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Chor"tling.] A word coined by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually explained as a combination of chuckle and snort.
		chortle n : a soft partly suppressed laugh [syn: chuckle] v : laugh quietly or with restraint [syn: chuckle, laugh softly]
		Campaigners warn birth centres are threatened by cash and midwife shortages, after a spate of closures.
	www.indictionary.com /define/Chortle (215 words)

	planet chortle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Garish and outlandish, their craziness spreads through a public space faster than a digital telephone network.
		Children and adults alike are swept along by their co(s)mic energy, agility and the imposing size of the giants, Ig and Ag The chortles
		Chortles perform improvised audience interaction combining 'altered' songs, dances, human pyramids, games, 'contests' and 'quests!'
	kneehigh.va.com.au /chortles.htm (81 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: chortle
		Benjamin himself chortled now, an odd laugh to which I grew accustomed in years to come.
		Even Isaksson's stern wife, who rarely cracked a smile, chortled with glee, and Old Mothstead slapped his thighs and flapped his apron and danced around the couple, who moved in ever larger rings amongst the kegs.
		A nation that was used to chortling over Charlie Chaplin or rejoicing with the high-stepping Ziegfeld girls found itself drawn to this more refined, decidedly European entertainment.
	dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2001/04/24.html (122 words)

	News:Chortle award polls open (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It’s that time of year again when you can have your say in the Chortle live comedy awards.
		Out distinguished panel of critics, producers and promoters are already hard at work settling on shortlists for many of the categories.
		But there are also several awards chosen by Chortle readers – which is where you come in.
	www.chortle.co.uk /news/feb05/vote100201.php (188 words)

	TONGUE BUGGY EXPLAINED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Endomorphic secretions stimulate the pleasure regions of the brain resulting in the vocal emission of a recurrent auditory chortle frequencies.
		Cyclical chortle frequencies are recorded by the Chortle Mike.
		The chortle (or laugh) frequencies are analyzed, recorded and then processed via the Vehicular Chortle Processor.
	www.tonkinstudio.com /weirdtongue.html (492 words)

	Chortle Student Comedy Competiton Semi-Final, 09/02/05, Meditations on the Abyss
		Chortle Student Comedy Competiton Semi-Final, 09/02/05, Meditations on the Abyss
		Just posting this up to say if anyone went to this, I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on the night – either by commenting here or by a track-back thingy.
		Chortle's Steve Bennet has a review up here: link
	blogs.warwick.ac.uk /loved/entry/chortle_student_comedy (153 words)

	Etymology -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Words may start off as (A word formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name) acronyms, like snafu.
		Words come from specialist trades (font), different cultures or subcultures, and even works of literature (chortle from (English author; Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of mathematics who is remembered for the children's stories he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)) Carroll's (additional info and facts about Through the Looking-Glass) Through the Looking-Glass).
		Words may be named after a particular place (china, (The name by which a geographical place is known) toponyms) or after a particular person (Achilles' tendon, (A name derived from the name of person (real or imaginary) as the name of Alexandria is derived from the name of its founder: Alexander the Great) eponym).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/et/etymology.htm (1455 words)

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		He chortled in his joy." -Lewis Carroll X-Files' Eats the Brains of About 10 Million Americans Every Friday Night.
		Maybe.; 'The "chortle" is a good example of portmanteau or sandwich words.
		Those are words coined by fusing two or more words.
	wordsmith.org /awad/archives/0897 (3265 words)

	Technorati Tag: Chortle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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	www.technorati.com /tag/Chortle (367 words)

	The Lima News
		He arrived at “chortle,” meaning a snorting, joyful laugh or chuckle, by screwing together “chuckle” and “snort.”
		More than 130 years later, we’re still using the word chortle, and still apt to chortle at the sound of it.
		I didn’t know where “chortle” came from until last week.
	www.limanews.com /story.php?IDnum=13298 (602 words)

	Shadow Poetry's Online Poetry Bookstore -- Chapbooks -- Chortle Blossoms by Deborah P. Cooper
		As artists and friends, we share these venues, but short of a one-person performance (rare in poetry), it is hard to get a full taste of another writer's work.
		She's a "perpetrator of humorous verse!" Thus, if you wish to chortle, snort, chuckle and guffaw, I suggest you peruse Chortle Blossoms.
		• "Chortle Blossoms is a delightful romp through the author's fertile imagination, as she looks at things in her life (and ours) from mosquitoes to obituaries, with humor and honesty.
	www.shadowpoetry.com /bookstore/chortleblossoms.html (438 words)

	Discworld MUD - chortle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Self: You chortle in joy at Womble and Cabbage.
		Target: Xavier DeNightshade chortles in joy at you.
		Others: Xavier DeNightshade chortles in joy at Womble and Cabbage.
	discworld.imaginary.com /lpc/playing/soul.c?soul=chortle (107 words)

	irritant #4: Taranto and Credible Sources: We chortle in our joy. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Taranto and Credible Sources: We chortle in our joy.
		A few posts ago, I got into it with reader Tito Jackson (no relation) about whether James Taranto was a credible source.
		Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Taranto and Credible Sources: We chortle in our joy.
	www.irritantnumber4.com /2004/08/taranto_and_cre.html (1390 words)

	Definition of bemuse,contest,relinquish,chortle,scrutinize,collaborate,quaff,flag,fret,behoove
		Definitions of bemuse, contest, relinquish, chortle, scrutinize, collaborate, quaff, flag, fret, behoove
		The chortles emanating from the audience indicated it wouldn't be as tough a crowd as the stand-up comic had expected.
		Explanation of bemuse, contest, relinquish, chortle, scrutinize, collaborate, quaff, flag, fret, behoove
	www.english-test.net /gmat/vocabulary/words/056/gmat-definitions.php (1156 words)

	New, Listening Blair? Reckless, More Like
		She wasn't for turning; she was convinced that if she said "back me or sack me" they would all, of course, back her.
		"But we didn't," chortles the Tory MP, "we sacked her." And that is the question now being asked on the Labour benches: will they all back Tony in the end, or might this be his poll-tax moment?
		Blair's big mistake is that he is ignoring the politics of all this.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/12-4-2003-48230.asp (688 words)

	Definition of chortle - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
		1 : to sing or chant exultantly chortled in his joy -- Lewis Carroll>
		transitive senses : to say or sing with a chortling intonation
		For More Information on "chortle" go to Britannica.com
	www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=chortle (108 words)

	Search Results for chortle - Encyclopædia Britannica
		a word composed of parts of two or more words, such as chortle from chuckle and snort and motel from motor and hotel.
		Every living language can readily be adapted to meet changes occurring in the life and culture of its speakers, and the main weight of such changes falls on vocabulary.
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	www.britannica.com /search?query=chortle&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (109 words)

	List words starting with chortle - shortest first (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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	www.morewords.com /starts-with-by-length/chortle (67 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Arts: Music to Chortle By
		The Austin Chronicle Arts: Music to Chortle By Forbidden Classics Pulls Laughs From "Serious" Music
		Yes, by gum it is, that's "Autumn Leaves" cascading in and out of that rumbling Brahms.
		This is music for cackling, chuckling, chortling, tittering, sniggering, giggling, and guffawing.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-01-11/arts_feature5.html (380 words)

	Allwords.com Definition of chortle
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		Etymology: 19c: invented by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-glass, combining chuckle + snort.
	www.allwords.com /word-chortle.html (89 words)

	CHORTLE WINS
		For on the day when V J van der Chortle lived up to all his youthful
		by Chortle but with consistent top six finishers Ken Awl and Chris
		The champion from Fiji was far too gentlemanly to rub salt into gaping
	home.btconnect.com /gibbonsgolf/archives2004.htm (562 words)

	Last chortle of my twenties > Brainfag Writing
		Maybe it's the fact that this is the last few weeks of my twenties and I'm gonna have to say goodbye to that dumb kid that inhabited me during the last drug-addled decade.
		For my last immature chortle, I have drawn a morbid flyer inviting people to celebrate my "first step over the small hill" dressed as a failed suicide.
		I have a feeling I'm gonna be the only one dressed up!
	brainfag.com /writing/158 (427 words)

	JazzFanz.com - View topic - <snicker snicker chortle>
		Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 6:07 am Post subject: chortle>
		Then there's the biggest joke of them all: Even before the first preseason game has been played, Curry has actually told team management through his representatives that he wants close to a maximum six-year, $86 million contract to stay with the team.
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	www.jazzfanz.com /boards/viewtopic.php?t=5146 (465 words)

	Related Website - Charles Fleischer on Chortle: Your guide to stand-up comedy and ...
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		Charles Fleischer on Chortle: Your guide to stand-up comedy and...
		"Charles Fleischer on Chortle Your guide to standup comedy and comedians in the UK Charles Fleischer Description A Yank, over here and taking our jobs!"
	www.fuzzster.com /r/show/se/37950.html (105 words)

	likesunday: Chortle
		That is in such bad taste I hesitated to link to it- but maybe can be taken as a protest from abroad.
		Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Chortle:
		Bauhaus: Press the eject and give me the tape
	likesunday.typepad.com /1/2004/01/chortle.html (167 words)

	Robert Service Quotes
		I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.
		It's a different song when everything's wrong, when you're feeling infernally mortal; when it's ten against one, and hope there is none, buck up, little soldier, and chortle.
		It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
	www.brainyquote.com /quotes/authors/r/robert_service.html (247 words)

	Thrasher Magazine: Totally Harsh on Your Mellow Chortle Scene #2
		Thrasher Magazine: Totally Harsh on Your Mellow Chortle Scene #2
		Totally Harsh on Your Mellow Chortle Scene #2
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