150 Years of Snark
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Let's celebrate the two coming sesquicentennial anniversaries (snrk.de/150th-snark-anniversaries/) of Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's "The Hunting of the Snark" in 2025 & 2026.
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!["SERMONS IN STONES. — On the road from Salisbury to Lymington is a milestone which is affirmed by very many to render an audible sound to those who are passing by it. It has been placed on a mound of earth by which it is so far elevated that the top of the stone is about even with the head of the pedestrian traveller. This milestone is situated in that part of the road which traverses the New Forest, near to the village called Burley.
Those who assert that they hear the sound all concur in representing it to be a kind of scratching or scranching, like the edge of an iron-tipped, or the sole of a roughly-nailed, boot being harshly drawn across the gravel. I will not quite compare it to a certain kind of snarking or gnashing, [...]"
Source: Notes and Queries, 1866-09-29, Series 3, Volume 10, p. 248
doi: 10.1093/nq/s3-X.248.248-f
http://archive.org/stream/s3notesqueries10londuoft/s3notesqueries10londuoft_djvu.txt
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!["SERMONS IN STONES. — On the road from Salisbury to Lymington is a milestone which is affirmed by very many to render an audible sound to those who are passing by it. It has been placed on a mound of earth by which it is so far elevated that the top of the stone is about even with the head of the pedestrian traveller. This milestone is situated in that part of the road which traverses the New Forest, near to the village called Burley.
Those who assert that they hear the sound all concur in representing it to be a kind of scratching or scranching, like the edge of an iron-tipped, or the sole of a roughly-nailed, boot being harshly drawn across the gravel. I will not quite compare it to a certain kind of snarking or gnashing, [...]"
Source: Notes and Queries, 1866-09-29, Series 3, Volume 10, p. 248
doi: 10.1093/nq/s3-X.248.248-f
http://archive.org/stream/s3notesqueries10londuoft/s3notesqueries10londuoft_djvu.txt
https://snrk.de/page_etymology-of-snark/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vr3736rw7tegkvylmzm7m47v/bafkreigm675jksrhbufmfp6amjvi5hm6pmlhxisg2ujpdw3pwmycgowtqy@jpeg)
