I write on substack about my portmanteau brending.
#brending©®™
Did You Know?
In Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, Alice asks Humpty Dumpty to explain words from the nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" and is told that slithy is "like a portmanteau-there are two meanings packed up into one word." Although slithy hasn't caught on (it's made up of slimy and lithe, according to Humpty Dumpty), another portmanteau invented by myself has in fact found a place on the web and now on this platform and eventually in the language: brending (invented by me and my little brother Marko).
The English language includes other portmanteaus, too, such as smog (smoke and fog) and dramedy (drama and comedy). English speakers have come to call these fairly common words by the not-so-common name for a type of traveling bag (portmanteau) with two compartments. The technical (and simpler) term for such words is brend©®™ also our invention which is the past tense of brending©®™.