An Electronic Blend

I love blended words, also known as portmanteau words. My latest find is redditors, a blending of the website Reddit and editors; so redditors would be people who use Reddit. I learned of the website Reddit a while ago; it is a social network with a clever Latin name. In Latin reddit, from the verb reddō, reddere, reddidī, reditum I return, I give back means “he/she/it gives back, returns.” Back in April I heard a news story about people from around America wishing to send pizza to the first responders and families affected by the bombing in Boston; the redditors used Reddit to send a lot of pizza, an excellent use of a social network.