For my final paper, I was interested on talking about  the idea of how two words are blended to create a new one. These new words are created to set out a new invention or a phenomenon. I’m not entirely sure how I’m going to expand this topic more, but an idea is that for each paragraph I can describe each one of these blended words, and explain more about them…maybe with questions like why each word is formed into one, are these words considered grammatical words, does this word actually mean one or the other, like for example the word “hangry” and etc. I was hoping you can give me some ideas as well. What I also found interesting while doing a bit of research on this topic was, there’s another name indicated for blended words, it’s called “portmanteau words”. Portmanteau is a French word which means “suitcase” and the word suitcase is a mixture of two words that are formed in one. Although, I know it would be considered a compound word, in portmanteau there are words like “bromance”…which if you break apart it’s “brother” and “romance”. After reading more about portmanteaus I was very intrigued, because I’ve read that writers use portmanteau to make their writing more interesting and it adds creativity to it. Another interesting fact that I can speak about, is the term portmanteau was devised by Lewis Carroll, which I can expand that into more detail. Before writing down my blog post, one of the worries that I had was not being able to expand the paper with this topic. I do have another topic idea I might want to do, it’s comparing Shakespeare to English. Although I wouldn’t know how I would go about that idea, but it seems interesting to me because the romance words that are involved in Shakespeare. After doing more research, and maybe some helpful tips from you professor, hopefully I can create a great paper.

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