Portmanteau the duck into a turkey, was added to the "Oxford English Dictionary" in 2010. Similarly, the word "refudiate" was first used by Sarah Palin when she misspoke, conflating the words "refute" and "repudiate". Though initially a gaffe, the word was recognized as the "New Oxford American Dictionary"s "Word of the Year" in 2010. The business lexicon is replete with newly coined portmanteau words like "permalance" (permanent freelance), "advertainment" (advertising as entertainment), "advertorial" (a blurred distinction between advertising and editorial), "infotainment" (information about entertainment or itself intended to entertain by virtue of its manner of presentation), and "infomercial" (informational commercial). A
Portmanteau Examples of such combinations include: This usage has been referred to as "portmanteau morph". While in Portuguese, French, Spanish and Italian the use of the short forms is obligatory (with the exception of "ès" in French, which is archaic in most senses), German and Cornish speakers theoretically may freely choose the form they use. In German, "portmanteaus" clearly dominate in spoken language, whilst in written language, both forms are in use. Portmanteau A portmanteau (, ) or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words, in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new