http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/two-portmanteaus/ A blog mostly about language Thu, 23 May 2013 01:09:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/two-portmanteaus/#comment-48432 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:15:59 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11695#comment-48432 [...] the Lithuanians. Last year (in “Two portmanteaus”) I noted that Lithuanians come up often in Zippy, and back in 2010 (in “Savoring [...]

]]> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/two-portmanteaus/#comment-38474 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:35:38 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11695#comment-38474 [...] on this blog: in 2010 and 2011, references to the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus; and then in 2012, a Rhymes With Orange with the portmanteau doctopus (referring to a cartoon creature that is [...]

]]> http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/two-portmanteaus/#comment-32987 Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00:31 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11695#comment-32987 [...] searching through the Zippy archives (in connection with this posting), I came across a series of strips in February 2007 that repurposed either the text or the graphics [...]

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