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A Zitsmanteau

Today’s Zits, in which Jeremy commits a portmanteau:

Several of the strips I follow regularly are given to portmanteaus — Rhymes With Orange and Bizarro, in particular — but that’s not usually Zits‘s territory. Here, Jeremy intends messay as a smog-type portmanteau (something that is both X and Y), while his mother interprets it as a telescoping portmanteau (as messy essay).

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This entry was posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:19 am and is filed under Linguistics in the comics, Portmanteaus. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “A Zitsmanteau”

  1. Zmanteaus « Arnold Zwicky's Blog Says:
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