Wabe
Wabe is a term that has both literary origins and contemporary use as a broadcast call sign. In classic literature, the wabe appears in Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky poem, which is embedded in the novel Through the Looking-Glass. The opening lines describe the slithy toves “gyre and gimble in the wabe,” a line that has invited extensive interpretation. In Humpty Dumpty’s glossing scene within the same work, the word is defined as “the grass between the sun and the shade.” This fictional landscape feature has been discussed by readers and scholars as a symbol of the frontier between light and shadow, reality and nonsense, or the everyday world encountered in Carroll’s wordplay.
In modern media, WABE is the call sign of a public radio station serving the Atlanta, Georgia
Beyond these primary uses, the term Wabe may appear in various cultural or local contexts as a