BLENDS

Blend has defined as a word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two or
more other word parts. Blending is one of the most beloved of word formation processes in
English. It is especially creative in that speakers take two words and merge them based not on
morpheme structure but on sound structure. The resulting words are called blends. Also
known as a Portmanteau word.
According to Yule, The combination of two separate forms to produce a single new
term is also present in the process called blending. However, blending is typically
accomplished by taking only the beginning of one word and joining it to the end of the other
word. And according to Crystal, a lexical blend as its name suggests, takes two lexemes
which overlap in form, and welds them together.
Blends are similar to compounds but parts of the words that are combined are deleted,
so they are less than compounds. Carolls portmanteaus are what we have called blends,
and such words can become part of the regular lexicon. He called such forms portmanteau
words, because they were like a two-part portmanteau bag. Blending is related to
abbreviation, derivation and compounding, but distinct from them all.
Usually in word formation we combine roots or affixes along their edges: one
morpheme comes to an end before the next one starts. For example, we form derivation out of
the sequence of morphemes de+riv+at(e)+ion. One morpheme follows the next and each one
has idetifiable boundaries. The morphemes do not overlap.
But in blending, part of one word is stitched onto another word, without any regard
for where one morpheme ends and another begins. For example, the word swooshtika was
formed from swoosh and swastika. The swoosh part remains whole and recognizable in the
blend, but the tika part is not a morpheme, either in the word swastika or in the blend. The
blend is a perfect merger of form, and also of content. The meaning containts an implicit
analogy between the swastika and the swoosh, and thus conceptually blends them into one
new kind of thing having properties of both, but also combined properties of neither source.
The earliest blend in English only go back to the 19th century, with wordplay
coinages by Lewis Carroll in Jabberwocky. He introduced to the language slithy, formed from
lithe + slimy and galumph from gallop + triumph. Some blends that have been around for

quite a while include brunch = breakfast + lunch and cheeseburger = cheese + hamburger.
These go back to the first half of the twentieth century.
Examples :
Smack + mash = smash
Motor + cavalcade = motorcade
Camera + recorder = camcorder
Clap + crach = clash
Emote + icon = emoticon
Cranberry + apple = cranapple
Information + entertainment = infotainment
Broiled + roasted = broasted
Mock + cocktail = mocktail
Global + english = globish
Motor + pedal = moped
Flame + glare = flare
Situation + comedy = sitcom
Television + photogenic = telegenic
Pic + element = pixel
Motor + hotel = motel
Helicopter + airport = heliport
Advertisement + editorial = advertorial
Oxford + cambridge = oxbridge
Television + broadcast = telecast

Binary + digit = bit

Simultaneous + broadcast = simulcast
Teleprinter + exchange = telex
Information + commercials = informecials
Guess + estimate = guesstimate
Chunk + lump = chump
International + police = interpol