Portmanteau
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Nov 2, 2026
Aidan MichoHOST
What does the cycling part mean? Yeah, and it is a major pain for the people who recycle.
Aidan MichoHOST
Portmanteau, thank
Ryan MichoHOST
you very much.
Ryan MichoHOST
Portmanteau.
Ryan MichoHOST
Is that really what it is? Yes.
Ryan MichoHOST
That's when you...
Brian SalisburyHOST
Scream 4 ever.
Brian SalisburyHOST
I know I'm getting a little Fast and the Furious, a little Bad Boys with my numbering system and with my working the number into the word kind of situation, Portmanteau, but I feel like Scream 4 ever would have been a great title for Scream 4.
Heather WixsonGUEST
Yeah, I love when you can kind of work the numeric words into the word.
Heather WixsonGUEST
Although seven is like the worst.
Brian SalisburyHOST
That's true.
Brian SalisburyHOST
Can you imagine if that key were broken on your keyboard and you were trying to write about the VHS movies? That just feels like a Black Mirror episode I don't want to watch.
Heather WixsonGUEST
Yeah, no, you'd have to go find something in some document and copy and paste forever.
Heather WixsonGUEST
And I don't have that kind of patience in me anymore.
Pete StoneGUEST
Now, what does corporation mean? The average person doesn't know.
Pete StoneGUEST
Well, it's a portmanteau.
Pete StoneGUEST
Portmanteau is where you get two words and you shrink them and you make one new word.
Pete StoneGUEST
So it's corpse, oration.
Pete StoneGUEST
So corpse is body of, normally dead body, corpse.
Jon MackenziePANELIST
Yeah, that's good.
Jon MackenziePANELIST
We should maybe do that more often, just sort of… Portmanteau.
Jon MackenziePANELIST
Well, it's kind of not really a portmanteau.
Jon MackenziePANELIST
It's kind of more of a… Maybe it is a portmanteau.
Matt SingerHOST
of 10.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
One of the guys from Game of Thrones shows up, the big Icelandic dude.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
I thought he was kind of funny.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
Yeah, he was funny.
Josh PotterHOST
Yeah.
Liz SplattGUEST
Portmanteau?
Josh PotterHOST
Yeah, that's when you combine two words to make one.
Liz SplattGUEST
Portmanteau sounds like something that you could rearrange your name to just be.
Josh PotterHOST
No, it's when you take the-
Liz SplattGUEST
It's not, but-
Liz SplattGUEST
Uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Josh PotterHOST
I wanted to say something-
Laura CabreraHOST
Okay, so this is something I wanted to talk about.
Derek CabreraHOST
Portmanteau, by the way, is one of my favorite terms.
Laura CabreraHOST
I am aware.
Laura CabreraHOST
I
Timothy SpearmanHOST
Gestapo, short for Geheimstaatspolizea, secret police, secret state police is what Gestapo stands for.
Timothy SpearmanHOST
Stasi, state security service short for stats sicker height this intense tendency to abbreviate terms in german predates the nazis by at least a century but still persists today in german such a An abbreviation glossary is known as Kofferwort.
Timothy SpearmanHOST
In 1934, the NSDAP newspaper Der Angriff printed the coin Ein Nazi fährt nach Palästina.
Timothy SpearmanHOST
A Nazi goes to Palestine.
Daniel Montoya Jr.HOST
I would rather octoban.
Daniel Montoya Jr.HOST
That's a way better portmanteau.
Daniel Montoya Jr.HOST
Portmanteau is when you take two words and you put them together to form a different word, obviously.
Matthew CarstensenPANELIST
No, I was thinking about octoban and the implications thereof.
Daniel Montoya Jr.HOST
Like octomom?
AliceHOST
Yard art.
DougHOST
Portmanteau.
AliceHOST
[sighs] I keep forgetting to-
DougHOST
Come on, Alice.
AliceHOST
[laughs] Portmanteau.
DougHOST
No, you're too late.
AliceHOST
Ugh.
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