{"id":13248,"date":"2019-06-12T05:10:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T12:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=13248"},"modified":"2019-06-08T12:25:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T19:25:31","slug":"words-seldom-seen-portmanteau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=13248","title":{"rendered":"Words Seldom Seen: Portmanteau"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=13257\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13257\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13257\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=13257\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_11062.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_11062\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_11062.jpg?fit=700%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13257\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_11062.jpg?resize=381%2C286\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_11062.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_11062.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_11062.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_11062.jpg?resize=250%2C188&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_11062.jpg?resize=900%2C675&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff99cc;\"><strong>Portmanteau<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Noun: A word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others. This is a very useful word.<\/p>\n<p>Example: Podcast is a portmanteau of iPod and Broadcast. I suspect that cowboy is a portmanteau of cowherd and ranch boy. How about postcard?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.oxforddictionaries.com\/2016\/07\/06\/portmanteaus\/\">Here are some more examples<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portmanteau Noun: A word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others. This is a very useful word. Example: Podcast is a portmanteau of iPod and Broadcast. I suspect that cowboy is a portmanteau of cowherd and ranch boy. How about postcard? Here are some more examples<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[408],"tags":[594,593,409],"class_list":["post-13248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words-seldom-seen","tag-portmanteau","tag-portmenteau","tag-words-seldom-seen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-3rG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13258,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13248\/revisions\/13258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}