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What is the difference between a compound word and a portmanteau?

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Answered by vvipjattin
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Answer: compond spells c o m p o n d and other p o r t m a n t e a u

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Answered by Anonymous
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A portmanteau also differs from a compound, which does not involve the truncation of parts of the stems of the blended words. For instance, starfish is a compound, not a portmanteau, of star and fish; whereas a hypothetical portmanteau of star and fish might be stish.

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