Re: noun compounds

Mark J. Reed nevesht:
>On 3/6/06, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> > >As for "apple pear juice", that is simply ungrammatical in the
> > >English I have used and spoken these past 60+ years. Heaven >preserve
> > us from such juice companies.
> >
> > Who needs an ampersand when one can write "clamato" or "cranapple"?
> > But perhaps these are no worse than "cheeseburger."
>
>Indeed, no worse at all.  Portmanteaus are a horse of a completely
>different color from compounds; their creation constitutes wordplay
>rather than (allegedly) straightforward morphosyntax.   As such, all
>bets are off.  I have no objection whatsoever to "cranapple", and in
>general I appreciate Ocean Spray's efforts in making cranberry juice
>palatable by mixing it with sweeter fare to counteract the bitterness.
>  I don't recognize "clamato", but if it's "clam" + "tomato" and refers
>to tomato-based clam chowder, I'm all for its adoption, since I prefer
>New England's to Manhattan's and am tired of being surprised when my
>clam chowder comes with a tomato base.  Yuck.
>
Actually, Clamato(it's a brandname) is tomato juice with clam extract,
either drunk like tomato juice or used to mix a bloody caesar(like a bloody
mary, but Clamato instead of tomato juice)












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