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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - portmanteau word |
 | | Word Processor, in computer science, an application program for manipulating text-based documents; the electronic equivalent of paper, pen,... | | | Language, abbreviations and acronyms, figures of speech, grammar, how words make sentences, infancy and development of speech, loanwords, origin... | | | MSN Encarta - Search Results - portmanteau word |
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http://encarta.msn.com/portmanteau+word.html
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| | How Words Are Formed |
| | In initialisms and acronyms, the initial portions of the words or syllables of a phrase are used to form a word. | | | Modification is where an existing word is changed to form a new one. | | | Over time, the spaces between the words in the phrase are often lost, forming a single word. |
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http://www.wordorigins.org/Methods.htm
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| | Agoraphilia |
| | According to this, this, and this source, a portmanteau word is a word made up of parts of other words. | | | The class of words made out of other words includes a interesting and distinct subset of words made out of words that share common parts. | | | In contrast to those examples, other portmanteau words do have overlapping parts—smog and motel, for instance. |
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http://agoraphilia.blogspot.com/2005/02/unpacking-portmanteau-words.html
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| | Linguistics Guide: Modern English Morphology |
| | An affix is a morpheme added to the beginning or end of a base morpheme in order to change either the word's meaning, the word's form class (such as making a verb an adverb), or its function in the sentence. | | | A suffix is an affix that is added to the end of a base morpheme or word. | | | An inflectional affix is an affix that changes a word's grammatical role. |
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http://www.geocities.com/matthewmanahan_uncp/linguistics.htm
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| | Portmanteau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | "Portmanteau word" was the original phrase used to describe such words (as listed in dictionaries published as late as the early 1990s), but this has since been abbreviated to simply "portmanteau" as the term (and the type of words it describes) gained popularity. | | | Neologism, word, term, or phrase which has been recently created | | | However, words made up of two or more other words are usually not considered portmanteaux if they can be described by some other term. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_blend
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| | Catchword Naming Techniques Glossary Naming Techniques Naming Technique |
| | The words 'spick' and 'span' are an example of collocation. | | | For example, the word edit was actually formed by dropping the suffix "-or" from editor, not the other way around. | | | Blending The creation of a new word by combining the first part of one word with the last part of another (c.f. |
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http://www.catch-word.com/glossary.html
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| | Previous Columns/Posted 05/26/99 |
| | I was thinking that it is a portmanteau word, but I hope the roots aren't that crude. | | | Dear Word Detective: My daughter asked me what "p's and q's" stands for in the phrase "mind your p's and q's" recently. | | | Dear Word Detective: I'm taking an Introduction to Horticulture class and my professor told us a bunch of interesting information about potatoes. |
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http://www.word-detective.com/052699.html
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| | JABBER:The Jabberwocky Engine |
| | It is also a problem of criticism, that is, of the determination of differential levels at which nonsense changes shape, the portmanteau word undergoes a change of nature, and the entire language changes dimension” (83). | | | The words of our language have been naturalised so that we have a comfortable relation to a fixed set of letter combinations. | | | Ursonate the words are constructed with no inherent semantic value. |
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http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/hennessey/data/essays/Jabber_epoetry.htm
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| | Take Our Word For It Issue 101 |
| | While some might consider this typically English, it is simply a Gypsy word from the Romany (and Hindi) loke "man". | | | Just think if all words were "simplified" so that their spellings matched pronunciation - how would the increasingly poorly-educated public distinguish between all those homonymic words?! | | | Support for this version is found in certain Romany words. |
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http://www.takeourword.com/Issue101.html
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| | DICTION |
| | The hybrid nature of the language gives it a special richness; we can often choose between a Latinate word or phrase and a word or phrase which is Germanic in origin. | | | English is formed from a various of sources; it was initially a hybrid language, composed of Latin and Anglo-Saxon (Old English) root-words; it has since been further enriched by the additional of a sizable repertoire of "loan-words" from other languages. | | | Consider the following sets of synonymous words and phrases: |
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http://web.mala.bc.ca/guppy/crew410/diction.htm
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| | The word is, naturally, also considered Australian slang, according to the Macquarie Dictionary, which adds dek as a shortened noun form. | | | And since integrity ends up seeming the root of the word, that -ity -- the suffix expressing being or state -- militates (to our ear) against the use of the word as something that refers to a specific built object. | | | But we also want to consider that phrase "Truly an excellent portmanteau word," since it, at last, gives us a not-so-scientific term for discussing a word like tensegrity. |
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http://www.thediscouragingword.com/archives/arc5.shtml
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| | Absolute Write Water Cooler - Words that resonate |
| | However, a lot of the general principles of language change are a bit altered in terms of English, so it pays to be cautious. | | | It might be a new word, but it says so much, with so little effort.:ROFL: | | | In all seriousness (yeah), I love simple words. |
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http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/printthread.php?t=5839
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| | Previous Words of the Week. |
| | This week's word was suggested by Pabloxyz, a friend discovered in the fascinating chat room "Chat about the Web". | | | By the way, Chat About the Web (aka CATW) has become a "moveable feast". | | | From LaurAtl (another denizen of Chat About the Web) comes the suggestion for this week's word: |
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http://hometown.aol.com/oddother/page6.htm
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| | The Modern Word - Site Information & Introduction |
| | Welcome to the Library of Allexamina, Forth-Wander of the Modern Word! | | | An archive of major reviews that have appeared on The Modern Word. | | | The Modern Word - Site Information and Introduction |
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http://www.themodernword.com/site_info.html
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| | Articles: Through the Blender |
| | The terminology is complicated by a subsidiary process in which blends can give rise to new prefixes and suffixes which then affect the classification of later creations. | | | More recent examples of such formations are taken to be compounds with this suffix, rather than blends with cavalcade. | | | A blend is any word which is formed by fusing together elements from two other words and whose meaning shares or combines the meanings of the source words. |
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http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/blend.htm
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| | Portmanteau Word |
| | Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | | | "Portmanteau Word" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: protmanteau word. | | | Translations for "portmanteau word"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. |
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http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/po/portmanteau+word.html
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| | What does mean "Obstruse"? Antimoon Forum |
| | See other synonyms for the much the same idea in the words. | | | you have given an accurate ethymology of the word 'portmanteau', but you don't know its meaning, and this is why you have not understood Alice's question. | | | I corrected the spelling and found the information on the definition of the word "abstruse" at www.dictionary.com |
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http://www.antimoon.com/forum/posts/3986.htm
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| | Rane Professional Audio Reference (P) |
| | A parallel (as opposed to serial) interface transfers all bits in a word simultaneously. | | | PCM (pulse code modulation) A conversion method in which digital words in a bit stream represent samples of analog information. | | | An audio coding technology originally developed for speech. |
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http://www.rane.com/par-p.html
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| | Automagic |
| | Automagic is a portmanteau word that means that something is automatically done in such a clever way that the result looks like magic. | | | Villaine thou liest, for euen her verie words, Vnlesse it be by inspiration Adri. | | | How ill agrees it with your grauitie, Abetting him to thwart me in my moode; But wrong not that wrong with a more contempt. |
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http://www.termsdefined.net/au/automagic.html
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| | WordReference Forums - hardemment |
| | It's sophisticated humor that requires high bilingual skills, I'm afraid I'm not able to appreciate the Caroll's sentence you quote. | | | Carroll is famous for his portmanteau words, which seem like normal words but are not. |
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http://forum.wordreference.com/printthread.php?t=5811
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| | As the Five Percenters say, if you "break down" (analyze the etymological components of) the word "tricknology," you will discover: the word "trick," the word "knowledge," and the suffix "-logy" which means "the science, doctrine or theory of." Tricknology, then, is the "science of trick knowledge. | | | As with any rich language, there are words in Ebonics which convey powerful concepts that are lost in translation. | | | Paraphrasing the words that stuck in my mind: "The American Revolution did not take place in 1776. |
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http://www.sdonline.org/33/yusuf_nuruddin_2.htm
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| | Define portmanteau word : powered by In Dictionary (InDicitonary.com) |
| | 22 Moby Thesaurus words for "portmanteau word": ambiguity, amphibology, blend, contamination, counterword, double entendre, equivocal, equivocality, equivocation, equivoque, hybrid, hybrid word, hybridism, macaronic, macaronicism, polysemant, portmanteau, portmantologism, pun, squinting construction, telescope word, weasel word | | | portmanteau word n : a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings; "`smog' is a blend of `smoke' and `fog'"; "`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel'"; "`brunch' is a well-known portmanteau" [syn: blend, portmanteau] | | | Define portmanteau word : powered by In Dictionary (InDicitonary.com) |
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http://www.indictionary.com/define/portmanteau_word
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| | Portmanteau Word |
| | These, like acronyms, seem to be a very recent way to make new words, absent from most historical development of languages. | | | For discussion relating to use of the words "morphaword' and "frankenword" as synonyms/replacements for "portmanteau", see MorphaWord. | | | Portmanteau words are those made up words you get when you SmashWordsTogetherLikeSo so damn hard that some letters fall off the start of one and off the end of the other. |
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http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PortmanteauWord
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| | Your email with stories, anecdotes and words of support are much appreciated. | | | Vijay Talati (iitb.ernet.in): I think if the advertisers have their way, there will be as many portmanteaux as there are words... | | | The first word to go out of the wordserver "zephyr" (a gentle breeze) was received by 189 linguaphiles who subscribed on the first day. |
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http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/archives/0395
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| | School SCRABBLE® Activities: Issue #6 |
| | Create a bulletin board display of these and other portmanteaus, encouraging students to add other words. | | | Ask them which two words each word combines. | | | Brand Crossword Game" is the proper way to refer to this unique group of word games and related properties marketed by HASBRO. |
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http://www.scrabble-assoc.com/schools/act/20001215.html
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| | Portmanteau Words |
| | This will place your idea in a file that others can access from the "See Portmanteau" button below. | | | Portmanteau words mash together the sounds and meanings of two other words, or as Humpty Dumpty tells Alice in "Through the Looking-Glass," they pack two meanings into one word (portmanteau = suitcase or valise). | | | Give a definition of the portmanteau word in 20 words or less: |
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http://creativityforyou.com/portman.html
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| | National Review: Laurie's portmanteau - language - Brief Article |
| | "I let my mind 'scat' in free association," Laurie told me. "I take the first words that will advance the rehearsal process, even if they're inexact. | | | "Portmanteau word" is the technical term for what my wife gerrymanders in her mind. | | | National Review: Laurie's portmanteau - language - Brief Article |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n5_v50/ai_20443618
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| | BBC NEWS UK Mixed messages on multiculturalism |
| | "It's like racism, it's an overused word that's applied in so many ways it loses its value. | | | My general feeling is that it's a portmanteau word which means anything to anyone who wants to define it," Ms Bellos said. | | | "I've never personally used the word "multicultural" because I think it's very imprecise and so open to misinterpretation. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4138616.stm
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| | Portmanteau |
| | This is not a dictionary, it's a word game wordfinder, see Help and FAQ - Home | | | List all words starting with portmanteau, words containing portmanteau or words ending with portmanteau | | | All words formed from portmanteau by changing one letter |
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http://www.morewords.com/word/portmanteau
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| | The Mavens' Word of the Day |
| | The linguistic sense is 'a word formed by combining parts of other words', such as smog, from sm(oke) and (f)og; guesstimate, from guess and (e)stimate; brunch, from br(eakfast) and (l)unch; and motel from mo(tor) and (ho)tel. | | | Such words are formally called blends, but portmanteau (word) is also a common term. | | | This use of portmanteau is an allusion to that word-buff's favorite, Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1872), which has many passages of linguistic (and mathematical, and philosophical, and...) interest. |
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http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990203
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| | PORTMANTEAU - LoveToKnow Article on PORTMANTEAU |
| | In French the word was also applied to a bracket or set of pegs on which to hang clothes. | | | He died on the i4th of September and by his orders the words Hie jacet pulvis, cinis, et nihil were put on his tomb. | | | Dodgson (" Lewis Carroll ") in Through the Looking Glass (" The Song of the Jabberwock ") used the expression " portmanteau word " of an invented word composed of two words run together and supposed to convey humorously the combined meaning: thus " slithy " conveys slimy and lithe; " mimsy," flimsy and miserable. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PO/PORTMANTEAU.htm
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| | portmanteau - Wiktionary |
| | 1872 Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau--there are two meanings packed up into one word. | | | portmanteau (no comparative or superlative; used only before a noun) | | | (the noun used as a modifier) Of a word, story, etc, combining two words, stories, etc, in the manner of a portmanteau (in the linguistic sense). |
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Portmanteau
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| | chortle: Definition, Synonyms and Much More From Answers.com |
| | This type of word is called a blend or a portmanteau word. | | | In Through the Looking-Glass Humpty Dumpty uses portmanteau to describe the word slithy, saying, “It's like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word” (the meanings being “lithe” and “slimy”). | | | Business Entertainment Games Health People Places Reference Science Shopping Words More... |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/chortle
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| | RhymeZone |
| | Search for portmanteau word at other dictionaries: OneLook, Answers.com, Merriam-Webster | | | noun: a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings | | | Type in a word below to find its rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more: |
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http://www.poemzone.com/r/d?u=portmanteau_word
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| | washingtonpost.com: 'Chicken Hawks': Right or Wrong? |
| | Lewis Carroll defined a portmanteau word as a word "having two meanings packed into one word like a portmanteau." One example, in "The Hunting of the Snark," is "frumious" -- a combination of "fuming" and "furious." | | | What the term does point out is the hypocrisy of so many of our leaders who did everything they could to avoid combat when they were young but now seem eager to engage our forces in combat around the globe and have the chutzpah to question the patriotism of those who disagree with them. | | | He is wrong, though, when he writes that people who use the term "chicken hawk" are saying that only people who have served in the military can advocate war. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A13508-2002Nov6?language=printer
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| | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - portmanteau word |
| | combination word: a word that combines the sound and meaning of two words, e.g. | | | [< the description (in Lewis Carroll'sThrough the Looking Glass) of the word slithy as a "portmanteau" because "there are two meanings packed up into one word"] | | | Click here to search all of MSN Encarta |
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http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861737829/portmanteau_word.html
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| | Linguist - Uncyclopedia |
| | The word itself is a portmanteau word made from link and guitar. | | | Almost all linguists study languages in their spare time, for no reason. | | | A linguist is a person who studies the link between guitars. |
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http://www.uncyclopedia.org/uncyclopedia/index.php?title=Linguist
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| | Portmanteau words |
| | Create a portmanteau word by combining the two verbs, |
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http://www.megabrands.com/carroll/faq5.html
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| | HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found. | | | Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 404. | | | Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup, Common Administrative Tasks, and About Custom Error Messages. |
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http://electricka.com/electricka/muses/languagearts/words/etymology/portmanteau_words/portmanteau_scrolling_page.htm
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| | portmanteau_word |
| | [n] a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings. | | | Link to this dictionary definition of portmanteau word |
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http://lookwayup.com/lwu.exe/lwu/d?s=f&w=portmanteau_word
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| | Portmanteau |
| | They aren't meant to be shocking; they are just snapshots of life. | | | "'Portmanteau' suits the [online] medium, for it can be broken up into half-hour reading experiences. | | | Some people carry these around like so much baggage, others like a shining portfolio. |
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http://www.onlineoriginals.com/portmasy.html
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| | AskOxford: portmanteau word |
| | ASK THE EXPERTS · BETTER WRITING · WORLD OF WORDS · GAMES · GLOBAL ENGLISH · FOREIGN LANGUAGES | | | The Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English contains 145,000 words, phrases, and definitions. | | | • noun a word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others, e.g. |
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http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/portmanteauword?view=uk
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| | Spirits of Modernity: A new portmanteau word |
| | This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar. | | | So, when I referred to Ah-nold's speech at the Republican Convention as "politainment," did I create a new word? | | | And, more importantly, how do I maintain credit for it? |
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http://www.lehigh.edu/~amsp/2004/09/new-portmanteau-word.html
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| | "portmanteau word" |
| | There is a dictionary of them: _Portmanteau Dictionary: Blend Words in the English Language Including Trademarks and Brand Names_ by Dick Thurner (McFarland, 1993, ISBN 0-89950-687-9). | | | Blend words predate Carroll: MWCD10 derives "squiggle" from "squirm" + "wriggle", and dates it circa 1816. |
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http://www.yaelf.com/aueFAQ/mifportmanteauword.shtml
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| | Wordsmyth |
| | Beginning soon, only registered visitors to Wordsmyth will see some of our best features. | | | About the Wordsmyth Children's Dictionary-Thesaurus with Word Explorer |
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http://wordsmyth.net/live/home.php?script=search&matchent=portmanteau+...
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