During the war between Turkey and the Balkan States, in 1912, _Punch_ depicted the part played by Rumania by representing the latter as a highwayman holding up the members of the Balkan alliance. The picture was entitled: _Kleptorumania_. Here the word is a fusion of Kleptomania and Rumania and may be represented as follows: KLEPTOMANIA RUMANIA ————————————— KLEPTORUMANIA A naughty jest of Europe has rebaptized a former potentate, Leopold, into _Cleopold_ because of his relation to a lady surnamed Cleo. This is a clear form of condensation which by the addition of a single letter forever vividly preserves a scandalous allusion. In an excellent chapter on this same theme Brill gives the following example.[16] “De Quincey once remarked that old persons are apt to fall into ‘anecdotage.’” The word _Anecdotage_, though in itself incomprehensible, can be readily analyzed to show its original full sense; and on analysis we find that it is made up of two words, _anecdote_ and _dotage_. That is, instead of saying that old persons are apt to fall into dotage and that old persons are fond of telling anecdotes, De Quincey fuses the two words into a neologism, _anecdotage_, and thus simultaneously expresses both ideas. The technique, therefore, lies in the fusion of the two words. Such a fusion of words is called condensation. Condensation is a substitutive formation, i.e., instead of _anecdote_ and _dotage_ we have _anecdotage_. “In a short story which I have recently read, one of the characters, a ‘sport,’ speaks of the Christmas season as the _alcoholidays_. By reduction it can be easily seen that we have here a compound word, a combination of _alcohol_ and _holidays_ which can be graphically represented as follows: alcoHOL HOLidays ———————————— ALCOHOLIDAYS “Here the condensation expresses the idea that holidays are conducive to alcoholic indulgence. In other words, we have here a fused word, which, though strange in appearance, can be easily understood in its proper context. The witticism may be described as a condensation with substitution.