On Radio 4's Word of Mouth, Michael Rosen is joined by literary scholar Noreen Masud to talk a load of old (and quite new) nonsense. Michael Rosen talks nonsense literature and made-up words with ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Nonsense poetry does not always make sense. Poets will use made-up words alongside real words, and talk about made ...

This concept is something that the king of nonsense words—Dr. Seuss—seemed to intuitively understand. The researchers took 65 made-up words from Dr. Seuss’s books—like “wumbus” and “ ...