Portmanteau Podcast
1) Podcast
This one has to be done if not for anything, the meta aspect of things. Podcast - "iPod" and "Broadcast"... Or is it? Ben Hammersley original accidentally coined the term podcasting in an article as...Show More
2) Frenemy
Frenemy, or the plural frenemies, combines Friend and Enemy thus making it both a Portmanteau and an oxymoron or "contradiction in terms." The earliest printed use of the term was from gossip columni...Show More
3) Brexit
Brexit - "British" and "exit" references the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. This term was first coined by Peter Wilding, theĀ chairman of British Influence, in a 2012 blog p...Show More
4) Infomercial
This episode was chosen by a poll on Twitter. The poll had Infomercial, Infotainment, Bennifer, and Brangelina. The latter two had zero votes - so I someone is trying to tell me something. Ā On to t...Show More
5) Trailer
Brexit, Bennifer, Brangelina. Infotainment infomercial and podcast .What do these all have in common? They're portmanteaus, sometimes called Frankenwords. These were first used by Lewis Carroll in "Th...Show More