2026-02-18
26 分钟Hi everybody!
My name is Shauna and this is the American English Podcast.
My goal here is to teach you the English spoken in the United States.
Through common expressions, pronunciation tips, and interesting cultural snippets or stories,
I hope to keep this fun, useful, and interesting.
Let's do it!
Hi everyone!
In this episode, Liz and I are going to play a game with common portmanteaus.
The word portmanteau originally comes from French.
And from my understanding, it's sort of a leather bag that you can carry on vacations,
that you can travel with, and you can shove stuff inside of it.
In English, however, a portmanteau is a combination of two or more words to make one word.
I gave a few examples of this in previous episodes.
For example, in episode number 70,
I mentioned that Elvis Presley launched his career playing a genre of music called rockabilly.
The word rockabilly combines the words rock and hillbilly,
and the genre combines influences from rock music with country.
So the word makes sense, rockabilly is a portmanteau.
In episode number 58, I talked about laws regarding exotic animal ownership in U.S.
states.