Inevitably, the black market became awash with gin, and English duly obliged with dozens of euphemisms for tiptoeing around it, including diddle, sweetstuff, tiger’s milk, tittery, royal bob, and needle and pin (mother’s ruin and strip-me-naked, on the other hand, told it exactly like it was).

Pop-Tart is also a funny word, which only adds to the humor. Some words are just funny. It’s well known that words with the K sound are funny. Words like cattywampus, cankles, kuku, caca, and pickle are funny just because of that hard K sound (though I think pickle is funny even without the K sound). Oddly specific words are also funny. It’s funnie

So we would go scrumping—do you know the term “to scrump”? It’s an English word that basically means to steal apples, but also has come to mean to steal any type of fruit.

Alice's accomplishment remains a mystery. As with the Mad Hatter's conundrum ("The riddle initially had no solution"), numerous solutions have been presented but are really afterthoughts. Some have argued that the book is an allegory, but it is not; the book's principal undertones are light satire—on children's schooling and on well-known