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When Carroll coined the word borogoves he gave it only one r, but somehow a few editors gave it a second r, as in borogroves.
Incidentally, the time at which the slithy toves were doing things in the wabe and the borogoves were going all mimsy was brillig, which Humpty Dumpty said is four o'clock in the afternoon--the time when you start broiling things for dinner.
It has long been a source of puzzlement to me that borogoves is a source of puzzlement to others.
After reading in The joy of jabberwocking, by J. A. Davidson [XXII,1,23], that but somehow a few editors gave it a second r , as in borogoves , and Probably many years ago a careless printer put in that extra γ, I have, somewhat tossicatedly, to ask: Am I the only one for whom (many years ago) Professor Bagos Hitman opened wide a copy of Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer and, pointing to a bevy of bilingual yokemates, one of which was (to the best of my recollection) something like bearu grove , burbled (accusingly) Tulgey?
For example, the second edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1953) gave two- r borogroves in its index, but in the text has the one- r borogoves.