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Sniglets Have you ever heard of Sniglets? The person who coined this term, actor/comedian Rich Hall, described them as “any word that doesn’t appear in the dictionary, but should”. Sniglets featured as part of the satirical comedy show Not Necessarily the News based on the BBC series Not the Nine O’clock News. Many of the Sniglets are often ‘portmanteau . . . → Read More: Time for a little giggle with some ‘Sniglets’ Reading an article online in the Daily Mail about the release of the US brand ‘Candwich’ led me to consider the practice of joining words together to make new ones. This process is known as portmanteau, itself a word made of two words combined together – it originates from the French word portemanteau, combining porter (to carry) . . . → Read More: Englackers? Portmanteau words |
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