 Blends are words formed in an unorthodox way by joining chunks of their component parts. Here is a well-known example. The combination of smoke and fog results in smog. In smog, two monosyllabic words are recombined, and we can clearly see that the result is a combination of the onset of the first syllable and the rhyme of the second one. In brunch, two words with different syllable structures are recombined, and again, the result is a combination of the first onset and the last rhyme. Today, many ordinary words are blends. In fact, some of them, for example, spam, are so well-installed in the lexicon that speakers are unaware of the fact that they are really hybrid words rather than simple roots. In this case, a blend from spice and ham. Blends should not be mixed up with abbreviated compounds, whereas blends cannot be spelled out and used in a full version. Abbreviated compounds can be used in two ways, in their abbreviated or in their full form.