SPRINTER = SPRING + WINTER

I believe that all of you are familiar with these terms: wifi, oxbridge, brunch and etc. Yes, we understand them as a combination of two words. Wifi is the combination of wireless and fidelity, oxbridge is the combination of oxford and cambridge and Brunch is the combination of breakfast and lunch. Word formation theory refers to this as blend, where you take just one part of each words and combine them to form a new word.

If someone asks me what season this is i will answer 'sprinter', instead of spring or winter. It is a combination od spring and winter. I dont know whether this also happened in the other part of the world, but in Korea, this spring does not seem either like spring or winter to me. Instead it seems to be something in the middle.

Last weekend sun shone brightly here in Seoul so i decided to leave my campus, where i was supposed to do work on paper, and went to Cheonggyechon and Gwanghamun. This was the way I thought at that time 'Hmm... nobody knows whether tomorrow will still be sun like this'.

Well, i should have been more careful about the way i thought. These days tempereature drops again due to continuous rain and cold weather...brrrrr! Somebody, please give me a scientific explanation for this. Is it caused by the global warming? Well, I wont say global warming, but global heating!

So, should we add this 'sprinter' to english dictionary? LOL^^