Just beginning this Wikipedia thing has been entertaining - while reading the page about Wikipedia itself, I followed the "portmanteau" link and learned all sorts of fascinating things about the use of that term for a new word made by combining two others. We can thank Lewis Carroll for this usage - he borrowed the concept of a two-compartment suitcase to describe such created words.
And the fun continues, here is a great cartoon about wikipedia. Everybody loves to laugh at wikipedia, until their assignment is due.
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yark, yark, yark! I love the cartoon and the puppy is adorable. I've noticed other strange news reels and thought the widget newsreel would have the usual suspects so didn't bother. I must take a look again.
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