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Portmanteau alert

Submitted by jessica on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 01:23.

This is new to me:

Bleg
A blog entry consisting of a request to the readers, such as for information or contributions. A portmanteau of "blog" and "beg". Also called "Lazyweb."

It is also a verb, as evidenced by this Freakonomics posting:

Last week I blegged, seeking information for the next edition of The Yale Book of Quotations, about Bill Gates’s undoubtedly apocryphal quotation, “640K ought to be enough for anybody.

I'm ambivalent about this new word, but I'm enthusiastic about portmanteau. Maybe this is actually a bleg for you to give me some more examples of portmanteaux.

(Perhaps overheard from Jess to Adam circa 1989: "Dude, where's my Young MC cassingle?")

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If I could respond

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 09:29.
If I could respond to two blog posts at the same time, I would. Overheard in the elevator at school just yesterday: “Ughh…I don’t feel like going to Jazzercise tonight.”
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Submitted by jessica on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 09:33.

Amazing in so many ways. And not only because I’m pretty sure that that was an elevator back to 1985.

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Submitted by cheryl on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 01:35.
My yoga teacher gave an example of a portmanteau, one of the positions she taught tonight was a yogalates movement. 
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