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vocabulaire > formation / transformation des mots nom <-> nom > mot-valise / portmanteau word
Smoke <-> Fog -> Smog The great smog of 1952 was so thick people could not see their feet. Some of the 4,000 who died in the five days it lasted did not suffer lung problems - they fell into the Thames and drowned because they could not see the river.
50 years after the great
smog, a new killer arises:
Attention turns to car fumes on
anniversary of 1952 disaster,
Origin portmanteau word "a word composed of parts of two or more words, such as chortle from chuckle and snort and motel from motor and hotel. The term was first used by Lewis Carroll to describe many of the unusual words in his Through the Looking-Glass (1871), particularly in the poem “Jabberwocky.” Other authors who have experimented with such words are James Joyce and Gerard Manley Hopkins. " Source : Encyclopædia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=137827
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