"exact(ual)ly" in Alice

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

an exchange with a friend on the text of Alice...  anyone have any
light to shed on "exactually"?

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu>
> Date: January 22, 2005 6:04:21 PM PST
> To: Ann Burlingham <annb at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [rec.arts.books.childrens] Re: Please ID this 1970's
> Children's Book
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2005, at 10:35 PM, you wrote:

[forwarded message]

>> From: lenona321 at aol.com (Lenona321)
>> Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.childrens
>> Subject: Re: Please ID this 1970's Children's Book
>> Date: 04 Jan 2005 17:08:52 GMT
>>
> ...
>> “Let’s consider your age to begin with—how old are you?” asked the
>> White Queen.
>>
>> “I’m seven and a half exactly,” said Alice.
>>
>> “You needn’t say ‘exactly’,” the Queen remarked: “I can believe it
>> without that. Now I’ll give you something to believe. I’m just one
>> hundred
>> and one, five months and a day.”
>>
> ...
>> (Oddly, some editions have the Queen saying "exactually." Can't
>> imagine why -
>> it doesn't strike me as typical Carrollian humor.)
>>

[Ann Burlingham]

>> also:
>> http://www.pseudodictionary.com/search.php?letter=e&browsestart=420
>>
>> i like "exactually." people in Google examples seem to use it
>> unconsciously.
>>
>> i must have an _annotated alice_ around here somewhere....

[AMZ]

> curioser and curioser.  the original Annotated Alice (1960) has
> "exactually", but More Annotated Alice (1990) has "exactly".  neither
> has an annotation on this word.