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 Hebrew has the blend ("taklitor"), which consists of the Jewish-descent ("taklít", record) and ("or", light). Modern Hebrew is full of portmanteau blends, such as the following: Other blends include the following: Sometimes the root of the second word is truncated, giving rise to a blend that resembles an acrostic: A few portmanteaus are in use in modern Irish, for example: On Brazilian Portuguese, portmanteaus are usually slangs, some of them include: On European Portuguese, there is the word "telemóvel", which means mobile phone, comes from "telefone" (telephone) and "móvel" (mobile). A portmanteau common in both Hindi and English is Hinglish,