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Will you get a 10/10 on this portmanteau test?

2022-12-10T07:15:57.685Z


QUIZ - Our language is full of words of all kinds composed from already existing terms. Some are amazing. do you know them?


Our language is in perpetual motion.

The proof, each year, new words come to fill the pages of the dictionary.

Neologisms, Anglicisms, portmanteau words... Some of these words were created a long time ago and we would have almost forgotten them!

This is the case with the word "slum", a portmanteau word created in 1931 composed of slum and city, to illustrate a city built from recycled objects...

To discover

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According to the Trésor de la langue française, a portmanteau word is a

"verbal creation formed by the telescoping of two (or three) words existing in the language"

.

Some are associated with a hyphen like

"coat hanger"

when others are completely merged with the beginning of the first word and the end of the second.

And this, unlike neologisms, which are new words that have recently appeared in a language.

Language is a playground where anyone can have fun associating two different words to create a new concept.

The editorial staff invites you to rediscover these portmanteau words of which we do not suspect the existence.

So, will you get a 10/10 on this test?

Source: lefigaro

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