Words, words, words
On Hacker News they’re discussing a portmanteau generator. I wrote one too a few years ago and never got around to posting the results. Some of the better discoveries, loosely grouped by theme:
amountainous auburnt certaint clanguage cracket flightning havenue hybridge interpretty marqueen ravenue smotherapy spellet sportrait tracket
coarsenal navalanche smartial
ambulancet aprong sharpoon smalleable stackle stoolbox
localendar shalloween
cosmosis deternity ephemerald neveryone
advertisingularity brighteous davidity diasporadic freudianetics heavenue karmageddon leviathank parfaith plightning spheresy wheresy worthodox
accruelty apartner checkle chequestrian consultan commercenary entrepreneuropsychology evictim holocausterity interestitution moccasino neverthelessee
adolescentennial approximaternity maestrogen othermometry participaternity
adjourney answerve archivalry argumentality conferencephalomyelitis neglecture obstructure simplement translatency
alibido flaccident hasterisk pelvish risqueeze wienergy
blocket camisoleil chenillegal clocket eskimono fabrick fabulousy gartery marathong inspectator nudisturbance ploverall sconcept staffeta thighest thumble tranquilt
convictim misconductivity obtaint suspectator
gaffect hypocriteria insultan schooligan slightning videologue
frenchilada holocaustrian illinoisome tantamountain texasperating
amplifierce charmony chorde mnemonica perhapsody porchestra
cinnamong connectar gardenial saffront saffrontier scentral scoffee splate swallowance tasterisk wheath
blightning easiesta sweather weatherosclerosis
adepth comfortunate competentative difficultivate equalm indulgentle intelligentle misunderstandard respectacle respectrometer savantage
ambassadorable dissidentifier hormonetary parliamentality preferendum princessant scampaign spendulum suggestapo supremedy votingle
chancestry elephantom parallele pedigreen spheredity wheredity
pimplement plaqueous problemish scratchet
Here’s the code. Unlike Wordmerge, it doesn’t expect a subject word; it looks at all pairs in the dictionary instead and ranks the candidate portmanteaus by a notion of interestingness, letting you survey a whole dictionary worth pretty quickly. On the other hand this is less capable, in that it knows nothing about pronunciation, only spelling. There’s code using the CMU pronouncing dictionary elsewhere in the same languagetoys repo, which I never got around to incorporating into this program.
