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
Weasel word example of this is using terms like "somewhat" or "in most respects," which make a sentence more ambiguous than it would be without them. The expression "weasel word" may derive from the egg-eating habits of weasels. An article published by the "Buffalo News" attributes the origin of the term to William Shakespeare's plays "Henry V" and "As You Like It", in which the author includes similes of weasels sucking eggs. The article said that this was a misnomer, because weasels do not have a mandible suitable for sucking eggs. Ovid's "Metamorphoses" provides an earlier source for the same etymology. Ovid