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You'll get no argument from us -- this trend is extremely annoying. "Bennifer" was sort of funny the first time we heard it. But then Brangelina, TomKat, and Bennifer 2.0 came along, and our amusement quickly plummeted. So who's to blame for the uni-name? Fox News notes the trend started when Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez began dating back in late 2002 or early 2003. Those were dark days. Tabloids couldn't get enough of the couple, reporting every move Ben and Jen made. Somewhere during the madness, Bennifer was coined. As for who came up with the nickname, we don't know. Courtney Shea, aka the Gossipy Gal Pal, writes that
trying to find out who coined "Bennifer" is a bit like "delving into the whole business of the grassy knoll. Everyone has a theory and many are eager to take credit." Why anyone would want credit for unleashing this plague upon pop culture is beyond us, but there ya go. For what it's worth, "portmanteau" is the technical name for a word "formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words." And believe it or not, Lewis Carroll coined that word's usage in "Through the Looking Glass." Maybe we should
blame him?
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