CHERPUMPLE

Okay, I had to look up Turducken when I heard it, but when you see it in print, it's a little easier to dissect and understand. It came up recently during an RBC ad campaign with the impossible to not recognize Canadian Jay Baruchel, who confused me by not aging a day in a decade, but has a voice so unique it is unmistakable. He uses the word Turducken in the context of investing, referring to a confusing and amusing "Turducken of savings" that he earnestly asks his RBC app, in search of more money to invest (I love how he reacts to moving too far away from his computer with headphones. Fabulous acting!)

Maybe it was because of a New Year's eve skit when two "hipster chefs" attempt in vain to stuff a beaver into a turkey into a moose (with a sprinkle of "KD dust"), but when I stumpled upon Merriam Webster's word  "Cherpumple", with it's outrageous photo of a perfectly executed example, I need to blog the thread.

From Copy Me That

In the spirit of Lewis Carol, who gave us the strange stories of Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking glass, concocting great combined words and referred to these words as "portmanteau" from the mouth of his character Humpty Dumpty. He also gave us such winners as "chortle" (chuckle and snort). These food examples follow a proud lineage of two meanings crammed together in one word.

I particularly like this list, with more authors that have originated terms we use everyday. I figured Dr. Seuss must have invented a few, but didn't know we have him to thank for the term "nerd"! Here are 86 others for fun. Wikipedia has a large collection also.

If that's not enough, you can even use an online generator to fuse your favorite words together and even make your love one's name partner with yours! Brangelina may be no longer, but the portmanteau lives on!