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#146241 08/10/05 06:37 PM
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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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so what's the diff. between a blend and a portmanteau word?


::sigh:: http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=146552


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Another new trend that's been around for many years.


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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!


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Some prescriptivist. Doesn't even know the difference between the OED and the ODE.

Harrumph®!



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