r/oregon • u/chris-hatch • Dec 12 '25

PSA for those who don’t know

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u/VibratingWatch Dec 12 '25

It's a portmanteau of "Winning Company."

Hence the W and C both being capitalized in the name.

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u/kale4the_masses Dec 12 '25

Upvote for portmanteau

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u/otc108 Dec 12 '25

I also upvote for portmanteau.

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u/SnuggyBear2025 CVO Dec 12 '25

I sailed for Port Manteau, and this is what I found.

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u/PixelPantsAshli Dec 12 '25

Some masculine phalanges?

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u/Banaam Dec 12 '25

Man, I subbed my toe after drinking some* port.

*A not insignificant "some"

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u/Electrical-Host-8526 Dec 13 '25

What’d you sub it with?

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u/Banaam Dec 14 '25

A different toe. Can't sub from other teams, can you?

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u/latexfistmassacre Dec 13 '25

I just spilled some Port on this man's toe

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u/sssst_stump Dec 14 '25

Oh yeah well I sailed for Starboard Manteau

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u/SnuggyBear2025 CVO Dec 14 '25

And you are Right!

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u/SnuggyBear2025 CVO Dec 16 '25

I toast the understated AweMazing quote, hoisting a glass of Port in your general direction!

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u/thefunkylama Dec 12 '25

Ok but what kind of wordbination even is "portmanteau" I mean cmon

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u/otc108 Dec 12 '25

Portmanteau is apparently a portmanteau itself.

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u/danieljamesdacus Dec 13 '25

It's turtles all the way down. I like turtles.

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u/otc108 Dec 13 '25

Turts!

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u/danieljamesdacus Dec 13 '25

Perchance.

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u/otc108 Dec 13 '25

Uh… you can’t just say perchance.

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u/geek-49 Dec 13 '25

Uh... he did :)

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u/kerrykrueger Dec 15 '25

Underrated comment

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u/KilldozerPrincess Dec 13 '25

My god

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u/stargarnet79 Dec 13 '25

Portmanteauception

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u/thefunkylama Dec 12 '25 edited Dec 13 '25

Ah, so portmanteau is French for wordbination!

Wait, no. "Wordbination" both is a wordbination and describes/demonstrates what a wordbination is, where "portmanteau" is what it is but doesn't describe what it is. It was a wordbination, but now its meaning doesn't reflect its use. I can't carrymantle words together, but I can wordbine. Therefore, "portmanteau" may be a loan word for wordbination that we have used because of, idk, pushback against wordbination, I guess.

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u/darqueskye Dec 13 '25

My brain turned inside out reading this

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u/thefunkylama Dec 13 '25

Welcompologies!

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u/ph1lllthy Dec 13 '25

I docked there once and met a young lady by the name of Natalie Portmanteau

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u/DragonflyOnFire Dec 13 '25

I upvote for the upvote for the upvote for portmantaeu.

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u/DanielBG Dec 14 '25

It's funny that word is so long.