
A portmanteau (plural: portmanteaux or portmanteaus) is a word that is formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words. It can also be called a frankenword. The term used in linguistics is blend (see the section #Portmanteaus in linguistics below). ==Etymology== This word was coined by Lewis Carroll in ''Through the Looking-Glass'', in which it is likened to a portmanteau (travelling case). Carroll has Humpty Dumpty say, "Well, ''slithy'' means '''lithe'' and ''slimy'''... You see it's like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word." Carroll used such words to humorous effect in his poems, especially ''Jabberwocky'', which Humpty Dumpty is explaining to Alice. "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. "Portmanteau" is rarely used for its original meaning in current English, that type of travelling case having fallen into disuse. James Joyce used portmanteau words extensively in ''Finnegans Wake''. Many corporate brand names, trademarks, and initiatives, as well as names of corporations and organizations themselves, are portmanteaus. For example, Wikipedia is a portmanteau made from ''wiki'' and ''encyclopedia'', and Wiktionary, one of Wikipedia's sister projects, is a portmanteau of ''wiki'' and ''dictionary''. ==Formation== Most portmanteaus are formed by one of the following methods: # Part of the sounds of both components are mixed in a "creative" way, mostly preserving their order, e.g., ''slithy'' in an example above. This method was preferred by Lewis Carroll, but is not much in use otherwise. In another humorous (probably because less 'sensical') example, there were two songs released consecutively by the Sweden band Rednex, called "Cotton Eye Joe" and "Old Pop in an Oak"; Two portmanteaus were heard: 'Caught in an Oak' and 'Poppin' Eye Joe'. # The beginning of one word is prepended to the end of the other, e.g., ''breakfast'' + ''lunch'' = ''brunch''. Sometimes the letter/sound at the boundary is common to both components, e.g., smoke + fog = ''smog''. This is the most common method of portmanteau forming. # Both components contain a common sequence of letters or sounds. The portmanteau is composed of the beginning of the first component, the common part and the end of the second component. This is a rare kind of portmanteau. For example, the word ''Californication (album)'', popularized by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, sounds as if it were California + fornication. The word Wiktionary:giraffiti can be classified as either the first (according to spelling) or the third (according to sound) kind of portmanteau. There is no formal definition of portmanteau. However, words made up of two or more other words are usually not considered portmanteaus if they can be described by some other term. Thus, the following are not portmanteaus: * Syllabic abbreviations, such as ''interpol''. * Compound words, such as ''bagpipe'' and ''portmanteau'' itself. ==Other languages== *''Tashhetz'' (''תשחץ'') in Hebrew language means arrow crossword and is made up of ''tashbetz'' (crossword) + ''hetz'' (arrow). *''Dasaitama'' in Japanese language is a nickname for the city Saitama, and a compound of the city's name with ''Dasai'' (uncool). ===Portmanteaus for language mixtures=== *''Chinglish'' in English: ''Chinese'' + ''English''. *''Czenglish'' in English: ''Czech'' + ''English''. *''Denglisch'' in German: ''Deutsch'' + ''Englisch'' ("German" + "English"). *''Finglish'' in English: ''Finnish'' + ''English''. *''Franglais'' in French: ''français'' + ''anglais'' ("French" + "English"). *''Frespañol'' in French: ''français'' + ''espagnol'' ("French" + "Spanish"). *''Germish'' in English: ''German'' + ''English''. *''Globish'' in English: ''Global'' + ''English''. *''Greeklish'' in English: ''Greek'' + ''English'', written only, Greek typed in latin characters. *''Hinglish'' in English: ''Hindi'' + ''English''. *''Itagnolo'' in Italian: ''italiano'' + ''spagnolo'' ("Italian" + "Spanish"). *''Itañol'' in Spanish: ''italiano'' + ''español'' ("Italian" + "Spanish"). *''Japlish'' in English: ''Japanese'' + ''English'' (though the more common term is the non-portmanteau Engrish) *''Namlish'' in English: ''Namibian'' + ''English''. *''Portunhol'' in Portuguese: ''português'' + ''espanhol'' ("Portuguese" + "Spanish"). *''Portuñol'' in Spanish: ''portugués'' + ''español'' ("Portuguese" + "Spanish"). *''Singlish'' in Singaporean English: ''Singaporean'' + ''English'', English with a Singaporean accent mixed with words from various Asian languages spoken in Singapore, such as Malay and Hokkien. *''Spanglish'' in American English: ''Spanish'' + ''English''. *''Svengelska'' in Swedish: ''svenska'' + ''engelska'' ("Swedish" + "English"). *''Svorsk'' in Norwegian: ''svensk'' + ''norsk'' ("Swedish" + "Norwegian"). *''Taglish'' in Philippine English and Tagalog: ''Tagalog'' + ''English''. *''Thaiglish'' in American English: ''Thai'' + ''English''. *''Yinglish'' in American English: ''Yiddish'' + ''English''. ==Linguistics== In linguistics, the term ''portmanteau word'' is used in a much narrower, yet still not clearly defined sense. Most of the examples given above are usually called ''blends'' by linguists. A blend in this sense is a word which creatively combines content words in ways that: * Often rely on similarity of sounds. * Don't respect their morphology (linguistics) structure (the way they are formed up from smaller meaningful parts). For example, the word ''smog'' is formed by putting together the ''sm-'' from ''smoke'' and the ''-og'' from ''fog'', but neither piece is actually a meaningful subpart of the word it's taken from. Blends are consciously and deliberately invented by people, in order to use language cleverly and creatively. Linguists also use the term ''portmanteau'' for contraction (linguistics). Portmanteaus ==External Links== * [http://creativityforyou.com/portman.html Portmanteau Words]
''[We have public-domain dictionaries available to us; can we please provide one of those definitions without an link to M-W?]'' Removing: The [http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=portmanteau Merriam-Webster definition of portmanteau] gives two meanings: #a large suitcase #a word or morpheme whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms (as ''smog'' from ''smoke'' and ''fog'') ---- These pronounciation notes look ugly and clutter the first sentence, IMO. A better solution is needed for this kind of information, maybe something similar to the links to articles in other languages? User:Jheijmans == Tidying up the list == Leaving aside the fact that this is meant to be an ''article'', and not just another interminable list, I'm removing some whith I don't think qualify as portmanteaus: * ''chocoholic'' from chocolate and alcoholic * ''WorkAholic'' (alt. workoholic - the suffix 'holic' means 'addict'. : "chocoholic" does not incorporate the meaning of "alcoholic". rather, it's a back-formation, extracting a suffic "-oholic" from "alcoholic" to mean addiction. * ''Sheriff'' : from what? Sheriff is from 'Shire' and 'Reeve' * ''byte'' from ''by eight'' : wrong, according to byte. * factoid : what is "-oid" from? As far as I can tell, it's a morpheme used to mean something a little like "pseudo-" * ''spyware'' * ''nagware'' * ''shareware'' * ''AdWare'' basically 'ware' as a NewSpeak suffix now means specifically 'software' : again, these are back-formations IMO. "-ware" is a suffix which was removed from "hardware" to coin "software"; this is just applying it to other roots. why do these simple lists of examples have to balloon into all this? What's the point? We'll end up having to prune most of them off into a "list of portmanteaus", and wikipedia is not a dictionary. -- User:Tarquin 08:19 Oct 3, 2002 (UTC) it's shear balloonacy! see http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/popcult/handouts/blends78.html for this and other examples of 'Lexical blending'. Shareware, Adware, spyware, nagware are not backformations. For example, shareware is not simply 'the morpheme 'Ad' plus the morpheme Ware' - it is the word advertisement plus the word software. Otherwise for example Adware would be any 'ware' which is used by people in the advertising industry - instead of specifically 'software' containing advertisements. for this reason they fit the classic portmanteau definition. --User:LeonBambrick ----- I could have sworn the words in "Jabberwocky" were derived from Old English. If they are truly portmanteaus, they need an explanation of which words they combine because it certainly isn't obvious. User:Tokerboy 01:41 Oct 20, 2002 (UTC) :In a letter he wrote "... as to 'burble', if you take the three verbs ''b''leat, m''ur''mer, and war''ble'', then select the bits I have underlined [here italicized], it certainly makes 'burble', though I am afraid I can't distinctly remember having made it in that way." Elsewhere, I remember he wrote that "slithy" was a combination of ''slimy'' and ''lithe''. The other words have various reasons for existence, as it were, but I don't think many of them are portmanteaus. Unless someone knows better, that list can be deleted, I think, with the relevent parts incorporated into some other list, or (probably better) into the beginning of the article. I don't fancy doing it, however... --User:Camembert :The Portmanteau words in Jabberwocky are the 'original' Portmanteau words. It was in describing this poem that the term itself was first coined. (They aren't old english words although Lewis Carrol intends to convey the impression that they are). Check out the relevant text at "http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/carroll6.html", or read Through the Looking Glass. --User:LeonBambrick The external link was bad. Please test it and see if it should not be removed. User:Fred Bauder 15:28 Dec 13, 2002 (UTC) Would anyone object if I got rid of the massive list of examples and trimmed it down to about three? -User:MyRedDice Nope. Keep the best ones. Ditch the dull & contentious ones. Wikipedia is not a collection of lists ... -- User:Tarquin 22:18 Dec 13, 2002 (UTC) : In an act of cowardice I moved it to List of portmanteaus. User:MyRedDice == From french ? == Is there any link with the french word ''porte-manteaux'' which literally means ''Jacket-Holder'' ? *Yes, there is. That word refers to a kind of suitcase with two storage spaces. The idea of a portmanteau word comes from the idea of packing two meanings into one word. **Funny, in French (from France) they say "mot-valise"... == Compound Word? == Are "portmanteau" and "compound word" synonymous? My inclination is no, that portmanteaux may drop intervening syllables or letters (as in "smog" and "brunch") while compound words never do (as in "rainbow" and "baseball"). --User:Zandperl 04:49, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC) : No, not at all. Your inclination is very much on the right track. Compounds are words that are formed by combining two or more complete, inflected words, following conventional rules. Blends (in the strict linguistic sense defined in the article) are formed by combining content words, but they are distinctive in that they are combined in very unconventional ways, that usually strike one as "clever". User:209.204.158.254 02:30, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Brand names == Wikipedia is not a corporation. Ergo, its name can't be an example of "corporate brand name". Ditto for Wiktionary. So I suggest we remove one of (or both) these examples and add a real corporate brand name instead (can't think of a good example now). User:Paranoid 10:11, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Massive pruning == Some of you may have noticed that there are now only five examples of frankenwords in the article. Don't freak out, portmanteau contributors. Your contributions have not vanished into oblivion. I have relocated them all at the List of portmanteaux page. Please also make any new contributions there.--------Kelisi 2005/2/5 == Frankenword == What the hell is that? Can anyone who knows write at least a stub on it? Because currently, frankenword redirects here, but this article does not explain what a frankenword is. User:Lev 11:35, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Slithy == You can't really say that ''slithy'' is not a portmanteau, since it is the first example of a portmanteau Carroll ever gave. It seems he preferred "creative" portmanteaus to "regular" ones such as ''smog''. For example, in the preface to ''The Hunting of the Snark'', he explains the concept using ''fruminous'', formed from ''fuming'' and ''furious''. -User:Lev 20:44, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Article breakup backwards== I don't dislike the idea of the article breakup, but methinks it went the wrong direction. The linguistics meaning seems to be the one that should get the predominant coverage under ''portmanteau'', as it has a lot more content, and it has a lot more ''potential'' content. — Stevie_is_the_man!">User:Stevietheman Talk">User talk:Stevietheman | Contrib">Special:Contributions/Stevietheman 21:50, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC) Further, it appears that most articles referring to this term mean to link to the linguistics meaning, and this now means that a lot of cleanup is in store unless we transpose the breakup. — Stevie_is_the_man!">User:Stevietheman Talk">User talk:Stevietheman | Contrib">Special:Contributions/Stevietheman 22:00, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC) :OK, you have a point there. I did the breakup in this way in order to avoid parentheses. So do you propose to move the travelling case to Portmanteau (travelling case) and the portmanteau word back to portmanteau with a disambig note linking to Portmanteau (travelling case)? - User:Lev 20:52, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC) ::Sounds great to me. Thanks! Also please change portmanteau word to redirect to portmanteau. — Stevie_is_the_man!">User:Stevietheman Talk">User talk:Stevietheman | Contrib">Special:Contributions/Stevietheman 21:00, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Portmanteaus vs. abbreviation#Syllabic Abbreviations == Any objections to removing all syllabic abbreviations from the List of portmanteaus? - User:Lev 20:30, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Linguistics Meaning == This article doesn't define how linguists use the word, it merely says how they do not. I would like it if someone who knows could fill in how they do use it. Thanks. User:Luqui 07:59, 2005 May 2 (UTC)
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A portmanteau (plural: portmanteaux or portmanteaus) is a word that is formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words. It can also be called a frankenword. The term used in linguistics is blend (see the section #Portmanteaus in linguistics below). ==Etymology== This word was coined by Lewis Carroll in ''Through the Looking-Glass'', in which it is likened to a portmanteau (travelling case). Carroll has Humpty Dumpty say, "Well, ''slithy'' means '''lithe'' and ''slimy'''... You see it's like a portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word." Carroll used such words to humorous effect in his poems, especially ''Jabberwocky'', which Humpty Dumpty is explaining to Alice. "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. "Portmanteau" is rarely used for its original meaning in current English, that type of travelling case having fallen into disuse. James Joyce used portmanteau words extensively in ''Finnegans Wake''. Many corporate brand names, trademarks, and initiatives, as well as names of corporations and organizations themselves, are portmanteaus. For example, Wikipedia is a portmanteau made from ''wiki'' and ''encyclopedia'', and Wiktionary, one of Wikipedia's sister projects, is a portmanteau of ''wiki'' and ''dictionary''. ==Formation== Most portmanteaus are formed by one of the following methods: # Part of the sounds of both components are mixed in a "creative" way, mostly preserving their order, e.g., ''slithy'' in an example above. This method was preferred by Lewis Carroll, but is not much in use otherwise. In another humorous (probably because less 'sensical') example, there were two songs released consecutively by the Sweden band Rednex, called "Cotton Eye Joe" and "Old Pop in an Oak"; Two portmanteaus were heard: 'Caught in an Oak' and 'Poppin' Eye Joe'. # The beginning of one word is prepended to the end of the other, e.g., ''breakfast'' + ''lunch'' = ''brunch''. Sometimes the letter/sound at the boundary is common to both components, e.g., smoke + fog = ''smog''. This is the most common method of portmanteau forming. # Both components contain a common sequence of letters or sounds. The portmanteau is composed of the beginning of the first component, the common part and the end of the second component. This is a rare kind of portmanteau. For example, the word ''Californication (album)'', popularized by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, sounds as if it were California + fornication. The word Wiktionary:giraffiti can be classified as either the first (according to spelling) or the third (according to sound) kind of portmanteau. There is no formal definition of portmanteau. However, words made up of two or more other words are usually not considered portmanteaus if they can be described by some other term. Thus, the following are not portmanteaus: * Syllabic abbreviations, such as ''interpol''. * Compound words, such as ''bagpipe'' and ''portmanteau'' itself. ==Other languages== *''Tashhetz'' (''תשחץ'') in Hebrew language means arrow crossword and is made up of ''tashbetz'' (crossword) + ''hetz'' (arrow). *''Dasaitama'' in Japanese language is a nickname for the city Saitama, and a compound of the city's name with ''Dasai'' (uncool). ===Portmanteaus for language mixtures=== *''Chinglish'' in English: ''Chinese'' + ''English''. *''Czenglish'' in English: ''Czech'' + ''English''. *''Denglisch'' in German: ''Deutsch'' + ''Englisch'' ("German" + "English"). *''Finglish'' in English: ''Finnish'' + ''English''. *''Franglais'' in French: ''français'' + ''anglais'' ("French" + "English"). *''Frespañol'' in French: ''français'' + ''espagnol'' ("French" + "Spanish"). *''Germish'' in English: ''German'' + ''English''. *''Globish'' in English: ''Global'' + ''English''. *''Greeklish'' in English: ''Greek'' + ''English'', written only, Greek typed in latin characters. *''Hinglish'' in English: ''Hindi'' + ''English''. *''Itagnolo'' in Italian: ''italiano'' + ''spagnolo'' ("Italian" + "Spanish"). *''Itañol'' in Spanish: ''italiano'' + ''español'' ("Italian" + "Spanish"). *''Japlish'' in English: ''Japanese'' + ''English'' (though the more common term is the non-portmanteau Engrish) *''Namlish'' in English: ''Namibian'' + ''English''. *''Portunhol'' in Portuguese: ''português'' + ''espanhol'' ("Portuguese" + "Spanish"). *''Portuñol'' in Spanish: ''portugués'' + ''español'' ("Portuguese" + "Spanish"). *''Singlish'' in Singaporean English: ''Singaporean'' + ''English'', English with a Singaporean accent mixed with words from various Asian languages spoken in Singapore, such as Malay and Hokkien. *''Spanglish'' in American English: ''Spanish'' + ''English''. *''Svengelska'' in Swedish: ''svenska'' + ''engelska'' ("Swedish" + "English"). *''Svorsk'' in Norwegian: ''svensk'' + ''norsk'' ("Swedish" + "Norwegian"). *''Taglish'' in Philippine English and Tagalog: ''Tagalog'' + ''English''. *''Thaiglish'' in American English: ''Thai'' + ''English''. *''Yinglish'' in American English: ''Yiddish'' + ''English''. ==Linguistics== In linguistics, the term ''portmanteau word'' is used in a much narrower, yet still not clearly defined sense. Most of the examples given above are usually called ''blends'' by linguists. A blend in this sense is a word which creatively combines content words in ways that: * Often rely on similarity of sounds. * Don't respect their morphology (linguistics) structure (the way they are formed up from smaller meaningful parts). For example, the word ''smog'' is formed by putting together the ''sm-'' from ''smoke'' and the ''-og'' from ''fog'', but neither piece is actually a meaningful subpart of the word it's taken from. Blends are consciously and deliberately invented by people, in order to use language cleverly and creatively. Linguists also use the term ''portmanteau'' for contraction (linguistics). Portmanteaus ==External Links== * [http://creativityforyou.com/portman.html Portmanteau Words]
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''[We have public-domain dictionaries available to us; can we please provide one of those definitions without an link to M-W?]'' Removing: The [http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=portmanteau Merriam-Webster definition of portmanteau] gives two meanings: #a large suitcase #a word or morpheme whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms (as ''smog'' from ''smoke'' and ''fog'') ---- These pronounciation notes look ugly and clutter the first sentence, IMO. A better solution is needed for this kind of information, maybe something similar to the links to articles in other languages? User:Jheijmans == Tidying up the list == Leaving aside the fact that this is meant to be an ''article'', and not just another interminable list, I'm removing some whith I don't think qualify as portmanteaus: * ''chocoholic'' from chocolate and alcoholic * ''WorkAholic'' (alt. workoholic - the suffix 'holic' means 'addict'. : "chocoholic" does not incorporate the meaning of "alcoholic". rather, it's a back-formation, extracting a suffic "-oholic" from "alcoholic" to mean addiction. * ''Sheriff'' : from what? Sheriff is from 'Shire' and 'Reeve' * ''byte'' from ''by eight'' : wrong, according to byte. * factoid : what is "-oid" from? As far as I can tell, it's a morpheme used to mean something a little like "pseudo-" * ''spyware'' * ''nagware'' * ''shareware'' * ''AdWare'' basically 'ware' as a NewSpeak suffix now means specifically 'software' : again, these are back-formations IMO. "-ware" is a suffix which was removed from "hardware" to coin "software"; this is just applying it to other roots. why do these simple lists of examples have to balloon into all this? What's the point? We'll end up having to prune most of them off into a "list of portmanteaus", and wikipedia is not a dictionary. -- User:Tarquin 08:19 Oct 3, 2002 (UTC) it's shear balloonacy! see http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/popcult/handouts/blends78.html for this and other examples of 'Lexical blending'. Shareware, Adware, spyware, nagware are not backformations. For example, shareware is not simply 'the morpheme 'Ad' plus the morpheme Ware' - it is the word advertisement plus the word software. Otherwise for example Adware would be any 'ware' which is used by people in the advertising industry - instead of specifically 'software' containing advertisements. for this reason they fit the classic portmanteau definition. --User:LeonBambrick ----- I could have sworn the words in "Jabberwocky" were derived from Old English. If they are truly portmanteaus, they need an explanation of which words they combine because it certainly isn't obvious. User:Tokerboy 01:41 Oct 20, 2002 (UTC) :In a letter he wrote "... as to 'burble', if you take the three verbs ''b''leat, m''ur''mer, and war''ble'', then select the bits I have underlined [here italicized], it certainly makes 'burble', though I am afraid I can't distinctly remember having made it in that way." Elsewhere, I remember he wrote that "slithy" was a combination of ''slimy'' and ''lithe''. The other words have various reasons for existence, as it were, but I don't think many of them are portmanteaus. Unless someone knows better, that list can be deleted, I think, with the relevent parts incorporated into some other list, or (probably better) into the beginning of the article. I don't fancy doing it, however... --User:Camembert :The Portmanteau words in Jabberwocky are the 'original' Portmanteau words. It was in describing this poem that the term itself was first coined. (They aren't old english words although Lewis Carrol intends to convey the impression that they are). Check out the relevant text at "http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/carroll6.html", or read Through the Looking Glass. --User:LeonBambrick The external link was bad. Please test it and see if it should not be removed. User:Fred Bauder 15:28 Dec 13, 2002 (UTC) Would anyone object if I got rid of the massive list of examples and trimmed it down to about three? -User:MyRedDice Nope. Keep the best ones. Ditch the dull & contentious ones. Wikipedia is not a collection of lists ... -- User:Tarquin 22:18 Dec 13, 2002 (UTC) : In an act of cowardice I moved it to List of portmanteaus. User:MyRedDice == From french ? == Is there any link with the french word ''porte-manteaux'' which literally means ''Jacket-Holder'' ? *Yes, there is. That word refers to a kind of suitcase with two storage spaces. The idea of a portmanteau word comes from the idea of packing two meanings into one word. **Funny, in French (from France) they say "mot-valise"... == Compound Word? == Are "portmanteau" and "compound word" synonymous? My inclination is no, that portmanteaux may drop intervening syllables or letters (as in "smog" and "brunch") while compound words never do (as in "rainbow" and "baseball"). --User:Zandperl 04:49, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC) : No, not at all. Your inclination is very much on the right track. Compounds are words that are formed by combining two or more complete, inflected words, following conventional rules. Blends (in the strict linguistic sense defined in the article) are formed by combining content words, but they are distinctive in that they are combined in very unconventional ways, that usually strike one as "clever". User:209.204.158.254 02:30, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Brand names == Wikipedia is not a corporation. Ergo, its name can't be an example of "corporate brand name". Ditto for Wiktionary. So I suggest we remove one of (or both) these examples and add a real corporate brand name instead (can't think of a good example now). User:Paranoid 10:11, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC) == Massive pruning == Some of you may have noticed that there are now only five examples of frankenwords in the article. Don't freak out, portmanteau contributors. Your contributions have not vanished into oblivion. I have relocated them all at the List of portmanteaux page. Please also make any new contributions there.--------Kelisi 2005/2/5 == Frankenword == What the hell is that? Can anyone who knows write at least a stub on it? Because currently, frankenword redirects here, but this article does not explain what a frankenword is. User:Lev 11:35, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Slithy == You can't really say that ''slithy'' is not a portmanteau, since it is the first example of a portmanteau Carroll ever gave. It seems he preferred "creative" portmanteaus to "regular" ones such as ''smog''. For example, in the preface to ''The Hunting of the Snark'', he explains the concept using ''fruminous'', formed from ''fuming'' and ''furious''. -User:Lev 20:44, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Article breakup backwards== I don't dislike the idea of the article breakup, but methinks it went the wrong direction. The linguistics meaning seems to be the one that should get the predominant coverage under ''portmanteau'', as it has a lot more content, and it has a lot more ''potential'' content. — Stevie_is_the_man!">User:Stevietheman Talk">User talk:Stevietheman | Contrib">Special:Contributions/Stevietheman 21:50, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC) Further, it appears that most articles referring to this term mean to link to the linguistics meaning, and this now means that a lot of cleanup is in store unless we transpose the breakup. — Stevie_is_the_man!">User:Stevietheman Talk">User talk:Stevietheman | Contrib">Special:Contributions/Stevietheman 22:00, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC) :OK, you have a point there. I did the breakup in this way in order to avoid parentheses. So do you propose to move the travelling case to Portmanteau (travelling case) and the portmanteau word back to portmanteau with a disambig note linking to Portmanteau (travelling case)? - User:Lev 20:52, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC) ::Sounds great to me. Thanks! Also please change portmanteau word to redirect to portmanteau. — Stevie_is_the_man!">User:Stevietheman Talk">User talk:Stevietheman | Contrib">Special:Contributions/Stevietheman 21:00, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Portmanteaus vs. abbreviation#Syllabic Abbreviations == Any objections to removing all syllabic abbreviations from the List of portmanteaus? - User:Lev 20:30, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Linguistics Meaning == This article doesn't define how linguists use the word, it merely says how they do not. I would like it if someone who knows could fill in how they do use it. Thanks. User:Luqui 07:59, 2005 May 2 (UTC)
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