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In recent years, gossip magazines and blogs have picked up the trend, perhaps from [[Soap Opera]] fandom, and started giving real life celebrity supercouples their own pairing-smoosh names. Some examples would be Bennifer (Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez), TomKat (Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes), and Brangelina (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie). The supercouple smoosh name trend became so prevalent that [[Stephen Colbert]] parodied it on the [[Colbert Report]] by citing his favorite celebrity pairing name, "Filliam H. Muffman" (Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy). <ref> http://www.wikiality.com/Filliam_H._Muffman </ref>

In recent years, gossip magazines and blogs have picked up the trend, perhaps from [[Soap Opera]] fandom, and started giving real life celebrity supercouples their own pairing-smoosh names. Some examples would be Bennifer (Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez), TomKat (Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes), and Brangelina (Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie). The supercouple smoosh name trend became so prevalent that [[Stephen Colbert]] parodied it on the [[Colbert Report]] by citing his favorite celebrity pairing name, "Filliam H. Muffman" (Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy). <ref> http://www.wikiality.com/Filliam_H._Muffman </ref>

==Further Reading==

==Further Reading/Meta==

*[http://the-toast.net/2015/09/30/a-linguist-explains-the-grammar-of-shipping/ A Linguist Explains the Grammar of Shipping] at ''The Toast''

*[http://the-toast.net/2015/09/30/a-linguist-explains-the-grammar-of-shipping/ A Linguist Explains the Grammar of Shipping] at ''The Toast''

*[http://www.academia.edu/2450304/The_Fandom_Pairing_Name_Blends_and_the_Phonology-Orthography_Interface "The Fandom Pairing Name: Blends and the Phonology-Orthography Interface"] by Cara DiGirolamo, 2012

*[http://www.academia.edu/2450304/The_Fandom_Pairing_Name_Blends_and_the_Phonology-Orthography_Interface "The Fandom Pairing Name: Blends and the Phonology-Orthography Interface"] by Cara DiGirolamo, 2012