Blending:
Sometimes two or more words can be blended together to form a new word. For
example, the words 'breakfast' and 'lunch' can be blended
together to form the word 'brunch'.
Here is a list of some common blended words:
1. Brunch
(breakfast + lunch)
2. Smog
(smoke + fog)
3. Spork
(spoon + fork)
4. Chunnel
(channel + tunnel)
5. Sitcom
(situation + comedy)
6. Motel
(motor + hotel)
7. Infomercial
(information + commercial)
8. Brangelina
(Brad Pitt + Angelina Jolie)
9. Animatronic
(animated + electronic)
10. Turducken (turkey + duck + chicken)
11. Frankenfood (Frankenstein + food)
12. Docudrama (documentary + drama)
13. Fantabulous (fantastic + fabulous)
14. Ginormous (gigantic + enormous)
15. Affluenza (affluence + influenza)
16. Edutainment (education + entertainment)
17. Frenemy (friend + enemy)
18. Netiquette (Internet + etiquette)
19. Oxymoron (oxy + moron, meaning sharp +
dull)
20. Webinar (web + seminar)