Inter-pre-nating Quilts

 The other day I was sitting around a table

with a group of friends

and one of them said, describing another

"She is really good at Interprenating quilts"

My friend laughed at her own faux pas

stating "I don't think that is a real word."

but we all knew immediately what she meant.

Do you?

 The reason she might have wondered if 

Interprenating 

is a real word 

comes from our experience of constantly learning new

Quilt Lingo

Sometimes it can make your head spin.

I can remember the setting and where I was 

when I first learned the meaning of the words

Stipple

Wonkey

and

Fussy Cut

In Linguistics, new words are regularly being formed 

all the time, and as quilters

we like keep up with current trends.

A Portmanteau word or Blend Word

is formed by merging the sounds and meanings

of two or more words.

Think:

Sharknado (Shark +Tornado)

Infomercial (Information + Commercial)

Brangelina (Brad Pitt + Angelina Jolie)
So if you are good at
Interpreting quilts and Communicating pattern design
you just might be an
Interprenator!

So, I ask you, is Inter-pre-nating a real word?

If used often enough, it can become one!
(Although I might have to run this idea past our daughter Elizabeth
who has a degree in Linguistics)
But for now,

I think I need to get busy and start

interprenating a few more quilts.