Are you familiar with words like "brunch", "Sitcom", "Brexit", "Pokemon", "podcast", "cyborg"? I'm sure you are. Well, they are examples of "portmanteaus", words stemming from the combination of different ones, in order to describe a new meaning/ reality. That's part of what's called "lexical creativity" and which contributes to English (in this case, but also Spanish or any other language for that matter) being an ever changing and evolving language.
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