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learning > grammaire anglaise - niveau avancé
vocabulaire > formation / transformation
nom <-> nom
mot-valise / portmanteau word
Smoke <-> Fog -> Smog
The great smog of 1952 was so thick people could not see their feet. Some of the 4,000 who died in the five days it lasted did not suffer lung problems - they fell into the Thames and drowned because they could not see the river.
50 years after the great
smog, a new killer arises:
portmanteau word "a word composed of parts of two or more words, such as chortle from chuckle and snort and motel from motor and hotel. The term was first used by Lewis Carroll to describe many of the unusual words in his Through the Looking-Glass (1871), particularly in the poem “Jabberwocky.” Other authors who have experimented with such words are James Joyce and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Encyclopædia Britannica,
Voir aussi > Anglonautes > Grammaire anglaise explicative - niveau avancé
formation / transformation des mots > nominalisation, verbalisation, adverbialisation
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