In response to my latest portmanteau posting (with spuricane, Masculinfinity, and Boomchickadee), Loren Billings commented on Facebook: More blends than portmanteaux as such? To which I replied: Well, this is complicated. Many specialists in errors make a distinction between (inadvertent) blends and (advertent) portmanteaus (though they share some formal characteristics), while other writers on language, … Continue reading Combos