"Tad bit"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 8/15/06, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
> in contrast to the morphological blends, there are piles of
> *advertent* combinations of words -- coinings like "smog" and
> "Brangelina".  these i call "portmanteau words".

Speaking of which, I've written a piece on onomastic blends for Slate,
of possible interest to ADS-Lers:

http://www.slate.com/id/2147875/

(Brangelina is invoked, but turns out to be a red herring.)


--Ben Zimmer

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