I Love a Portmanteau Even More Than a Pun

LZ Granderson: I love a portmanteau even more than a pun. LZ: The fact that I got to marry my two loves that being linguistics, the science of language and creative writing was just the cherry on top because my dream had always been to write nonfiction. She says she grew up a total language nerd hardcore; her book is "super fun, very entertaining" It's about how languages with grammatical gender are built into the grammatical system.