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 and flimsy". Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the practice of combining words in various ways: In his introduction to "The Hunting of the Snark", Carroll uses "portmanteau" when discussing lexical selection: In then-contemporary English, a portmanteau was a suitcase that opened into two equal sections. The etymology of the word is the French "porte-manteau", from "porter", "to carry", and "manteau", "cloak" (from Old French "mantel", from Latin "mantellum"). In modern French, a "porte-manteau" is a clothes valet, a coat-tree or similar article of furniture for hanging up jackets, hats, umbrellas and the like. An occasional synonym for "portmanteau word" is