Writing Down the Garden Path
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Quick. Does this sentence make grammatical sense?
The man who hunts ducks out on weekends.
How about this one:
The cotton shirts are made of grows in Mississippi.
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A portmanteau word is created by combining two existing words. They are sometimes eventually recognized by dictionaries, but more often, they appear as slang and quickly fade into obsolescence. A common and relevant example is blog (web + log).
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