By JIM SABATASO | STAFF

A portmanteau is a word created by combining of two or more other words together to create a new one. Think smog (smoke/fog), spork (spoon/fork), turducken (turkey/duck/chicken/dark magic). Sometimes, towns are named this way — Texarkana, TX (and Arkansas), Kanardo, KS. But not all portmantowns (© 2014, ThePlaidCrew.com) are winners. Here are some passed over town names along with the reason they were rejected.

• Tennesucky — Too depressing.
• Minneindiana — Too hard to find.
• Texylvania — Name of an upcoming Showtime series about vampire cowboys in the Old West, co-produced by David Milch and Amy Sherman-Palladino.
• Oralasota — Not as fun as it sounds.
• Rhodakota — Valerie Harper objected.
• Wyomlahoma — Rival high school kept calling them “Wyomohomos.”
• Vermaine — Already exists; commonly referred to as New Hampshire.
• Ohiowa — The sound a samurai makes while orgasming.
• Virginmaryland — Too catholic.
• Wiscowashawalachussets — Inscrutable.