The Emancipation Proclamation reaches Texas (19-6-1865).
(Originally proclaimed 1-1-1863 in Washington.)
The anniversary has been celebrated by some African-American communities
ever since, but became a Federal holiday only in 2021.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation
Crystal focuses on the fact that the name is a "blend" -- a single word containing parts of two original words. Any other public holidays with blend-names?
In this case, since (he goes on) it's a whole word (june) plus part of
another word (-teenth), it's a "partial blend".
Another kind is where both parts are word-fragments: brunch, slithy. It
was to describe the latter word that Lewis Carroll (or rather Humpty
Dumpty) said "it's like a portmanteau", which has been adopted as a
technical term in linguistics. So strictly speaking Wikipedia is in
error when they say (vide supra) that "Juneteenth" is a portmanteau.
I suspect this terminology has never been scrupulously observed.
Looking for an image to show exactly what a portmanteau looked like, I
came across this:
https://writing-rag.com/4471/two-more-portmanteau-words/
But that's not what I wanted. I want a picture that shows one fully
opened, with several parts to hold different pieces of clothing, which
all fold together neatly into a single piece of luggage.
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