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re), cinemenace(from cinema and menace), reprography (from reproduction and photography ), museomania(from museum and mania), etc. ( 4 ) Air and Space Flight. Examples: mooncraft (from moon and air-craft), airnlada (frorn air and armada3 , Airveyor (from air and convey-or), fleep (from fly and jeep), Paraglider (from parachute and glider),e tc. ( 5 ) Travel and Service. Examples: Euraiipass (from European, rail and pass7, moped (froni motor-assisted and pedal-cycle), walkathon (from walk and marathon), motel (from motor and hotel), aquatel (from aqua-tic and hotel) ' riverscape (frorn river and landscape7 ' juketheque (frorn jukebox and discotheque) , secretagenterainment (frorn secret-agent and entertainment), funtastic (frorri fun and fantastic), etc. ( 6 ） Househood instruments. Exaiziples: Dishniobile I and mobile), Egg-a-Matic tfrom egg and automatic, a stem-a-stem pat-tern), Hotray (from hot and tray), keytainer (frotii key and container),Garbax (from garbage and bags), etc. ( 7 ) Pollution and Others. Examples: smog (from smoke and fog) 'smaze (from smoke and haze), subtopia (from suburban and utopia), au-topia (from auto and utopia), plugola (from plug and payola), shamateur(from sham and amateurl, etc. The above examples shou. that newly coined blend words touch almost every part o f social life, reflecting the changes of modern society and the development of modern science and technology. Ten Patterns on Which Blend Words Are Formed. Blend words are com-posed of two or more source words according to patterns of formal cha-racteristics. (1) The first splinter of one word is combined with the second sp-linter of another word, as in the following examples: femikini-femi(nine)+ (bi) kini, slurb--sl (um3 + (sub7urb, Japlish--Jap(anese) + (Eng)lish, lun-acast--luna (r) + (tele) cast, dandle--dan(ce) + (han)d le , e tc. (2) The first splinter of one word is mixed with that of another.as the following examples show: Porta-Play-- porta(ble) + play(er), Syn-con--syntchronized) + con(ference), , telex-tel (eprinter) + ex (change), gox--g(aseous) + ox (ygen) , lox--l (iquid) + ox(ygen) , etc. (3) There is often the overlapping of vowels, consonants or syllables of two words: motel--mo(tor) + (ho) tel, slurch--sl(ink7 + (1) urch, franglais--fran(cais ) + (an)glais, narcoma--narco (tic) + (co)ma, cremains--cre(mated)+ (re)mains, cinemagpie--cinema + (ma) gpie, etc. (4) A full word may be combined with the second splinter of an-other word as in underwhelm -- under + (over) whelm, buttlegger -- butt +(boot) legger, mousewife - mouse + (house)wife , slumlord -- slum + (land)lord, radiogram--radio + (tele) gram' etc. ( 5 ) Sometimes there is the combination of a full word with the midd;le part of another word, as in Copytron--copy+ (elec) tron(ic), Lawna-mat--lawn + a + (auto7 mat (ic) , etc. ( 6 ) Occasionally, a full word is combined with the first splinter of another word, as in masscult--mass + cult(ure). ( 7) The first splinter of one word is often mixed with another full word, as in BritRail--Brit(ish) +rail, Minifare--mini(mum) + fare, gravi- (8) A blend may be a combination of a person's name with another word as Federico Foolini (from Federico Fellini and fool). (9) A blend may be a ni:ixture of the first syllable and the last syllable of one word with the first syllables of another word inserted in between, like cosmedics--cos (meti)cs + niedi (cated) . (10) There is a long medical term which is a blend. It is compos