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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: Juneteenth (19 June)
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:43:11 +1200
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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.