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"To suit the pace of our lifestyle today there is a growing tendency to mix words together to make entirely new ones called blends," the dictionary researchers said.
Ok--so what's the diff. between a blend and a portmanteau word?
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::sigh:: http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=146552
Another new trend that's been around for many years.
Ok, ok, sorry...I forgot! BUT--do you really expect me to trust wikipedia, when I have no way of knowing who said that? Coulda been some language-subverser, f'rall I know.
And--holy cow, you-all, isn't it fun to simply talk about language again? Barbs and kens notwithstanding... You three made me laugh out loud in two different categories!
Some prescriptivist. Doesn't even know the difference between the OED and the ODE.
Harrumph®!
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