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Letter: The word is...

Published 29 March 2006

From Michael Forbes

Velcro is not an abbreviation, as you state in “The word”, but a portmanteau word (11 March, p 52). Lewis Carroll, who invented this term for a blend of two different words, would be delighted to see it used in your magazine.

Greenville, South Carolina, US

Issue no. 2545 published 1 April 2006

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