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Questions about the rules of English. This tag is overly broad and discouraged.

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What are the implicit rules for creating new portmanteaux in English?

My question is: What is the internalized rule or rules that native English speakers seem to automatically use to create these? … For extra credit, albeit perhaps pertaining more to the Linguistics SE: Are these implicit rules unique to English, or are they fairly constant across other languages in which such blends occur? …
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