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&nbsp;&nbsp;Talking About WordsSomeresidents of the University’s home state identify themselvesas Michiganders, while others opt for Michiganians as more high-toned.A few even like Michiganite.Prof. RichardW. Bailey of the English department has traced the first documenteduse of "Michigander" to an 1848 speech by Abraham Lincoln.In Nineteenth Century English (Universityof Michigan Press, 1996), Bailey cites Lincoln’s usage asan example of word-formation by blending — Michigan + gander.Forming a wordby blending parts of others, Bailey says, “was made famousby Lewis Carroll, who in 1872 devised chortle as a blend of chuckleand snort. Such creations he called ‘portmanteau words,’drawing on the idea of a piece of luggage containing compartments.”Bailey lists other portmanteau words,including squattocracy (1843 &lt; squatter + aristocracy, Australia),chattermag ‘chatterbox’ (coined by William Barnes fromchattering + magpie, 1844), squarson (1876 &lt; squire + parson),slanguage (1885 

&nbsp;&nbsp;Talking About WordsSomeresidents of the University’s home state identify themselvesas Michiganders, while others opt for Michiganians as more high-toned.A few even like Michiganite.Prof. RichardW. Bailey of the English department has traced the first documenteduse of "Michigander" to an 1848 speech by Abraham Lincoln.In Nineteenth Century English (Universityof Michigan Press, 1996), Bailey cites Lincoln’s usage asan example of word-formation by blending — Michigan + gander.Forming a wordby blending parts of others, Bailey says, “was made famousby Lewis Carroll, who in 1872...

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