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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know, About the Word Portmanteau

October 19, 2007 By: smmellott Category: Uncategorized 1 Comment →

Ever since I used the word Portmanteau in my post about Folksonomies, I have noticed that a lot of searches have been directed to my blog of people searching how to pronounce portmanteau. The written pronunciation is somewhat hard to figure out so I found this from Yahoo! Education that has the audio pronunciation. Just click on the little speaker symbol next to the word. Essentially, it is… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Folksonomy: A Big Word for a Common Concept

October 01, 2007 By: smmellott Category: Uncategorized 2 Comments →

People like to use big words for common things. I think it may be a leftover from academia where it seems that people try to show off their education by using words for things that are so obscure that only those who studied that subject in school would know them. And frequently they are really simple concepts that could be said using a common word or words.

This is… Continue reading | 2 Comments


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