Lexical blend: "shing-ding"

[Gerald Cohen]

For those of you interested in blends, here's an excerpt of a message
I received from a lady who had once taken my linguistics class:

>My Jennifer - ever the language creator from about 2  1/2 or 3 to
>present day (she's 40!) hit me today with a new "blend" (she's
>famous for them) - she was running late to go to a "shing-ding" - a
>blend of wing-ding and shindig.   And she was perfectly serious!  If
>I didn't admire her continual creativity with language, I'd worry
>about that girl!  She and I had a good laugh on the phone!


Gerald Cohen