envisualize

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

i.e., a lexical blend, with partial phonetic overlapping.

Gerald Cohen

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> From:         American Dialect Society on behalf of Arnold M. Zwicky
> Sent:         Wednesday, February Feb. 27, 2008 8:54 AM
> Subject:           Re: envisualize
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> On Feb 27, 2008, at 6:43 AM, Jon Lighter wrote:
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> > An M.D. on Fox News's _America's Newsdesk_  just now:
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> >  "You really have to envisualize these results carefully."
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> >  About 1000 raw Googlits for envisualize. envisualized, envisualizing.
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> presumably a combo of "envision" and "visualize", to yield a sort of beefed-up version of "visualize".
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> arnold

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