Social class in the United Kingdom assemblers and routine operatives, care workers, elementary storage occupations, customer service occupations, and musicians. The precariat, about 15% of British society, shows poor economic capital, and the lowest scores on every other criterion. Typical occupations include cleaners, van drivers, care workers, carpenters and joiners, caretakers, leisure and travel service occupations, shopkeepers and proprietors, and retail cashiers. The term "underclass" is used to refer to those people who are "chronically unemployed", and in many instances have been for generations. Typical characteristics are: There is a contention that there are homologies between the meaning context and tenor of the abusive popular word
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.