Formal
The first "Gerrymander" envisioned in a 1812 toon. The word is a portmanteau of Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry's name with "lizard."
Numerous neologisms are cases of mixes, yet many mixes have gotten to be a piece of the lexicon.[11] In Punch in 1896, the word informal (breakfast + lunch) was presented as a "portmanteau word."[17] In 1964, the recently free African republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar picked the portmanteau word Tanzania as its name. Additionally Eurasia is a portmanteau of Europe and Asia.
Some city names are portmanteaux of the fringe areas they straddle: Texarkana spreads over the Texas-Arkansas outskirt, while Calexico and Mexicali are separately the American and Mexican sides of a solitary conurbation. A logical case is a liger, which is a cross between a male lion and a female tiger (a tigon or tiglon is a comparative cross in which the male is a tiger).
Many organization or brand names are portmanteaus, including Microsoft, a portmanteau of microcomputer and programming; the cheddar "Cambozola" joins a comparable skin to "Camembert" with a similar shape used to make "Gorgonzola"; traveler rail organization "Amtrak", a portmanteau of "America" and "track"; "Velcro", a portmanteau of the French "Velours" (velvet) and "Knit" (snare); "Verizon," a portmanteau of "veritas" (Latin for truth) and "skyline," and ComEd (a Chicago-territory electric service organization) a portmanteau of "Republic" and Edison (Thomas Edison).
"Jeoportmanteau!" is a repeating classification on the American TV test indicate Jeopardy!. The classification's name is itself a portmanteau of the words "Danger" and "portmanteau." Responses in the classification are portmanteaux developed by fitting two words together.
Casual
Portmanteau words might be delivered by consolidating formal people, places or things with regular things, for example, "gerrymandering," which alludes to the plan of Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry for politically thought up re-districting; the edge of one of the areas subsequently made took after an exceptionally breathtaking lizard in diagram. The term gerrymander has itself added to portmanteau terms bjelkemander and playmander.
Oxbridge is a typical portmanteau for the UK's two most established colleges, those of Oxford and Cambridge.
A spork
Numerous portmanteau words get some utilization however don't show up in all lexicons. For instance, a spork is an eating utensil that is a blend of a spoon and a fork, and a skort is a thing of apparel that is part skirt, part shorts. Then again, turducken, a dish made by embeddings a chicken into a duck, and the duck into a turkey, was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2010.
So also, the word refudiate was initially utilized by Sarah Palin when she misspoke, conflating the words disprove and renounce. In spite of the fact that at first a faux pas, the word was perceived as the New Oxford American Dictionary's "Oath of the Year" in 2010.[18]
Business
The business dictionary is packed with recently instituted portmanteau words like "permalance" (lasting independent), "advertainment" (promoting as diversion), "advertorial" (an obscured refinement amongst publicizing and article), "infotainment" (data about stimulation or itself proposed to engage by ethicalness of its way of introduction), and "infomercial" (enlightening business).
Non-standard English
Name-coinciding
Two appropriate names can likewise be utilized as a part of making a portmanteau word in reference to the association between individuals, particularly in situations where both people are notable, or some of the time to deliver designations, for example, "Billary" (alluding to previous United States president Bill Clinton and his better half, previous United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton). In this case of late American political history, the reason for mixing is less to join the implications of the source words however "to propose a likeness of one named individual to the next"; the impact is regularly unfavorable, as language specialist Benjamin Zimmer states.[19] By differentiation, general society, including the media, utilize portmanteaux to allude to their most loved pairings as an approach to "...giv[e] individuals a quintessence of their identity inside the same name."[20] This is especially found in instances of anecdotal and genuine living "supercouples". An early known case, Bennifer, alluded to film stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. Different illustrations incorporate Brangelina (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) and TomKat (Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes).[20] "Desilu Productions" was a Los Angeles, California-based organization together claimed by couple and performing artists Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. Miramax is the mix of the main names of the guardians of the Weinstein siblings.
Occasions are another case, as in Thanksgivukkah, a portmanteau neologism given to the meeting of the American occasion of Thanksgiving and the principal day of the Jewish occasion of Hanukkah on Thursday, 28 November 2013.
The first "Gerrymander" envisioned in a 1812 toon. The word is a portmanteau of Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry's name with "lizard."
Numerous neologisms are cases of mixes, yet many mixes have gotten to be a piece of the lexicon.[11] In Punch in 1896, the word informal (breakfast + lunch) was presented as a "portmanteau word."[17] In 1964, the recently free African republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar picked the portmanteau word Tanzania as its name. Additionally Eurasia is a portmanteau of Europe and Asia.
Some city names are portmanteaux of the fringe areas they straddle: Texarkana spreads over the Texas-Arkansas outskirt, while Calexico and Mexicali are separately the American and Mexican sides of a solitary conurbation. A logical case is a liger, which is a cross between a male lion and a female tiger (a tigon or tiglon is a comparative cross in which the male is a tiger).
Many organization or brand names are portmanteaus, including Microsoft, a portmanteau of microcomputer and programming; the cheddar "Cambozola" joins a comparable skin to "Camembert" with a similar shape used to make "Gorgonzola"; traveler rail organization "Amtrak", a portmanteau of "America" and "track"; "Velcro", a portmanteau of the French "Velours" (velvet) and "Knit" (snare); "Verizon," a portmanteau of "veritas" (Latin for truth) and "skyline," and ComEd (a Chicago-territory electric service organization) a portmanteau of "Republic" and Edison (Thomas Edison).
"Jeoportmanteau!" is a repeating classification on the American TV test indicate Jeopardy!. The classification's name is itself a portmanteau of the words "Danger" and "portmanteau." Responses in the classification are portmanteaux developed by fitting two words together.
Casual
Portmanteau words might be delivered by consolidating formal people, places or things with regular things, for example, "gerrymandering," which alludes to the plan of Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry for politically thought up re-districting; the edge of one of the areas subsequently made took after an exceptionally breathtaking lizard in diagram. The term gerrymander has itself added to portmanteau terms bjelkemander and playmander.
Oxbridge is a typical portmanteau for the UK's two most established colleges, those of Oxford and Cambridge.
A spork
Numerous portmanteau words get some utilization however don't show up in all lexicons. For instance, a spork is an eating utensil that is a blend of a spoon and a fork, and a skort is a thing of apparel that is part skirt, part shorts. Then again, turducken, a dish made by embeddings a chicken into a duck, and the duck into a turkey, was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2010.
So also, the word refudiate was initially utilized by Sarah Palin when she misspoke, conflating the words disprove and renounce. In spite of the fact that at first a faux pas, the word was perceived as the New Oxford American Dictionary's "Oath of the Year" in 2010.[18]
Business
The business dictionary is packed with recently instituted portmanteau words like "permalance" (lasting independent), "advertainment" (promoting as diversion), "advertorial" (an obscured refinement amongst publicizing and article), "infotainment" (data about stimulation or itself proposed to engage by ethicalness of its way of introduction), and "infomercial" (enlightening business).
Non-standard English
Name-coinciding
Two appropriate names can likewise be utilized as a part of making a portmanteau word in reference to the association between individuals, particularly in situations where both people are notable, or some of the time to deliver designations, for example, "Billary" (alluding to previous United States president Bill Clinton and his better half, previous United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton). In this case of late American political history, the reason for mixing is less to join the implications of the source words however "to propose a likeness of one named individual to the next"; the impact is regularly unfavorable, as language specialist Benjamin Zimmer states.[19] By differentiation, general society, including the media, utilize portmanteaux to allude to their most loved pairings as an approach to "...giv[e] individuals a quintessence of their identity inside the same name."[20] This is especially found in instances of anecdotal and genuine living "supercouples". An early known case, Bennifer, alluded to film stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. Different illustrations incorporate Brangelina (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) and TomKat (Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes).[20] "Desilu Productions" was a Los Angeles, California-based organization together claimed by couple and performing artists Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. Miramax is the mix of the main names of the guardians of the Weinstein siblings.
Occasions are another case, as in Thanksgivukkah, a portmanteau neologism given to the meeting of the American occasion of Thanksgiving and the principal day of the Jewish occasion of Hanukkah on Thursday, 28 November 2013.
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