What is Internal Portmanteau?
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Causing a word to become shorter by joining the ends at a common letter. Can be done more than once in long words, or phrases.
IP = Internal
Examples of Internal Portmanteau:
Television --> Tevion (2 IP's) (pronounced "teh-vyun")
Mathematician --> Matician (1 IP) (pronounced "ma-tish-un")
Fabulous! --> Fabus! (1 IP) (pronounced "fab-ous")
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