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Good term for a business partner and competitor?
In our line of work we often work with other companies as partners on some jobs, and then compete against them on other jobs. So they are partners and competitors. Is there a good term for this, ...
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What is the correct pronunciation of “regex”?
The term regular expression is often shortened to regex. What is the correct pronunciation of the g in regex?
Is it like the g1 in gallium, or is it like the g2 in giraffe? I’ve heard it said both ...
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Is there an American term for a group of elitist schools, similar to the abbreviation “Oxbridge”?
I saw the word, ‘Oxbridge’, a portmanteau of Oxford and Cambridge, in a comment to a question asking for a better word for ‘invigilator’:
Whereas the situation is reversed in the UK, and one in a ...
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What do you call the process of combining two words to create a new one?
Two very well established examples I can think of are:
Guesstimate (i.e. Guess + Estimate)
Chillax (i.e. Chill + Relax)
I guess I am meaning the process where two words are artificially combined ...
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What does “adorkable” mean? How popular is this word? To what kind of objects and occasions can I apply “adorkable”?
I happened to find the paperback book titled Adorkable, by Sarra Manning, on the GoodReads site.
There is no entry for adorkable in the Cambridge, Oxford or Merriam-Webster dictionaries, or in ...
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Brainstorm: a pun on rainstorm?
The Online Etymology Dictionary unsurprisingly says brainstorm is from the combination of brain and storm.
What I want to know is whether or not this neologism was an intentional pun on the word ...
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Term for misspelling used as pun of another word
What is the term for a common or potential pun of another word using a misspelling? For example, I thought the made-up word bikery was a funny sort of play on the word bakery. What, therefore, would ...
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Term for turning “Florida” into “Flo Rida”
What would be the name for dissecting a word to create a phrase — the opposite of a portmanteau? Like the rapper Flo Rida made his name out of Florida. Is there a term for that?
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Is there a specific name for a portmanteau of two alternative spellings?
This question came about in a discussion between myself and another user of the Gaming.SE chat after I linked in this chiptune track called
An Eskimeau Experience
Here is the gist of the discussion:
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What are some uncommon but valid portmanteau words that people use?
What are some uncommon but valid portmanteau words that people use?
Example: Turducken is a portmanteau of turkey, duck, and chicken or hen. People outside US are not familiar with this.
