I Love You So, Portmanteau!
"Portmanteau words are now a staple of the magazine competition, and amid the waste of failed invention, every so often one meets a need: smog, stagflation, chocoholic. I don't know how we ever did without 'metrosexual', coined by my friend Mark Simpson."
10 whimsical words coined by Lewis Carroll
Dictionary dump (unformatted): a/an : “A was modified from the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the eagle. In Hebrew it was an ox, and in Greek it was a “symbol of a bad AUGURY in the sacrifices.” The distinction between a/an happened around the 1300s. aardvark : South African “earth pig” aaron’s serpent : “something so powerful as to swallow up mi
... See moreFor instance, there are several words or phrases I search out whenever I’m in a bookstore, including brand marketing, globalism, the new economy, partnerships, strategic alliances, the future.
Gene Stone • Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
