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 "nor"bu ("lotus jewel"), and the Buddhist practice of Dzogchen, or "dzog"pa "chen"po, the "Great Perfection." Tibetan is rich with portmanteaus. In linguistics, the term blend is used to refer to the general combination of words, and the term "portmanteau" is reserved for the narrow sense of combining two or more morphemes in one morph. E.g. in the Latin word "animalis" the ending "-is" is a portmanteau morph because it is used for two morphemes: the singularity and the genitive case. In English two separate morphs are used ("of an animal"). The term may also be extended to include (written) contractions.