Portmanteau

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.