"Lewis Carroll, or Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was a mathematician, a logician and a deacon. His knowledge of logic and amazing sensitivity to properties of natural language make his works full of jokes and passages that are based on various linguistic phenomena. As a semanticist, I can say for sure that almost any topic in semantics and pragmatics that is taught in introductory courses can be illustrated with a quotation from Carroll’s works. But the stories about Alice are not only relevant to the study of meaning; they also involve a play with syntactic and phonological rules. I would like to dedicate several posts to the ways in which Carroll plays with language in his works." - Maitani from Bookmarklet

"Let us begin with lexical relations between words. The relation that has been used by Carroll particularly productively is homonymy, more precisely, homophony. The author plays a lot with words that sound identically in spite of having different meanings. In many cases, these words are spelled differently, which makes it impossible for a reader to get confused. Here are some examples." - Maitani

I like Carroll's wordplay. My HS trig teacher used to quote a lot of Carroll to get us to understand some concepts. Didn't help me, but it was fun. - Anika