These may take the form of an acronym (where only one letter of each name is taken) or a blend (where a large part of each name is taken, such as the first syllable).
Amalgamated names are most commonly used for amalgamated businesses, characters and places.
Amalgamation is also a term used in linguistics when a compound contains roots from several languages, without it being part of a blended language.
For example, a word with an English and a Spanish root would not be an amalgam, if part of Spanglish, while an English word with a Greek and a Latin root would.
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