Portmanteau
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What do you have when you want to combine two words because you are too lazy to spit them both out? A portmanteau. With Eric Hunley

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This one has to be done if not for anything, the meta aspect of things. Podcast - "iPod" and "Broadcast"... Or is it? Ben Hammersley original accident...
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Frenemy

Frenemy, or the plural frenemies, combines Friend and Enemy thus making it both a Portmanteau and an oxymoron or "contradiction in terms." The earlies...
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Brexit

Brexit - "British" and "exit" references the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. This term was first coined by Peter Wilding, th...
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Infomercial

This episode was chosen by a poll on Twitter. The poll had Infomercial, Infotainment, Bennifer, and Brangelina. The latter two had zero votes - so I s...
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Trailer

Brexit, Bennifer, Brangelina. Infotainment infomercial and podcast .What do these all have in common? They're portmanteaus, sometimes called Frankenwo...
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