- ☀️Daily Log:
- [[til2021]] Portmanteau
- A blend of words in which parts from individual words are formed to make the new word
- tobit = tobin + probit (the one that started this rabbit hole)
- smog = smoke + fog
- motel = motor + hotel
- brunch = breakfast + lunch
- Tanzania = Tanganyika + Zanzibar
- Eurasia = Europe + Asia
- liger = lion (m) + tiger (f)
- tigon = tiger (m) + lion (f)
- Microsoft = microcomputer + software
- Amtrak = America + track
- velcro = velours (french for velvet) + crochet (french for hook)
- Verizon = veritas (latin for truth) + horizon
- spork = spoon + fork
- refudiate = refute + repudiate (a mistake by Sarah Palin but later recognized as a word)
- Similar to contraction but those are formed by words that would otherwise appear together in sequence
- Similar to compound but those do not blend the words but just concatenates them
- Retrospective::
- One week ago: [[November 16th, 2021]]
- One month ago: [[October 23rd, 2021]]
- One quarter ago: [[August 23rd, 2021]]
- One year ago: [[November 23rd, 2020]]
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