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What's your nominee for the best portmanteau of 2012?
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December 30th, 2012
In case you aren’t familiar with the word, a portmanteau is a word made up by combining two or more words, or morphemes, and their meanings into a single new word. For instance, smog is made up of smoke and fog (both literally, and as a word).
As the year ends, it seems fitting to decide which new portmanteaus of 2012 are keepers and which are destined for the dustbin of language history. My 2012 favorite is hatriotism. It’s the perfect word for something which has, of recent, become a political staple of the far right in American politics. We needed a word for that. Now we have one. What’s your addition to the portmanteau keeper list for 2012?
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