If I do a story, it will have characters named portmanteau, morpheme and phoneme. The significance of the names will be that (1) will be a more specific version of (2) which will be a more specific version of (3), different branches in taxonomy. There's another one called a chireme or something.

PORTMANTEAU

A portmanteau (plural: portmanteaus or portmanteaux) is a term in linguistics that refers to a word or morpheme that fuses two or more grammatical functions. A folk usage of portmanteau refers to a word that is formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words (e.g. 'animatronics' from 'animation' and 'electronics', or 'porte-manteau' itself from the French words porte (carry) and manteau (coat)). In linguistics, these folk portmanteaux are called blends. Typically, Portmanteau words are neologisms.

MORPHEME

In Morpheme-based morphology, a morpheme is the smallest language unit that carries a semantic interpretation. Morphemes are, generally, a distinctive collocation of phonemes (as the free form pin or the bound form -s of pins) having no smaller meaningful members.

English example: The word "unbelievable" has three morphemes "un-", (negatory) a bound morpheme, "-believe-" a free morpheme, and "-able". "un-" is also a prefix, "-able" is a suffix. Both are affixes.

PHONEME

In human language, a phoneme is a set of phones (speech sounds or sign elements) that are cognitively equivalent. It is the basic unit that distinguishes between different words or morphemes — changing an element of a word from one phoneme to another produces either a different word or obvious nonsense, whereas changing an element from one phone to another, when both belong to the same phoneme, produces the same word (sometimes with an odd or incomprehensible pronunciation).

Phonemes are not the physical segments themselves, but mental abstractions of them. A phoneme could be thought of as a family of related phones, called allophones, that the speakers of a language think of, and hear or see, as being categorically the same.

Story idea:

Setting in a futuristic world, a judeo-christian like religion of the future, where there are seven gods, or seven aspects of god, each with a priesthood. They are dressed in different colours, I see one in Robes of Maroon, one in a Merchant of Venice like Gaberdine of Turquoise, the rest I cannot see.

Each priesthood is totally separate from the other, but when they preach their words are identical, each priest speaks with a different intonation and the resulting blending of voices is harmonious and dissonant at the same time. The church is like in the interior of a cathedral with wooden pews but instead of one sanctuary, there are seven, the majority of the space is behind the rostrum, and the church looks like a rectangle ending in half a seven pointed star with each priesthood having a speaker in one point. The speakers ascend simultaneously and wordlessly, and with no indication of prior eye contact start speaking at the identical same time, it is unrehearsed and without premeditation, that is the way of _________, when one of the priests speaks out of turn, there is a purging and many must die.

When they speak together it is hollow, loud, reverberating and otherwordly. Society, while not centred around this religion, recognizes it as an integral part, and that it is a social power to be reckoned with, and is meta-political.

"The General has given me the pick of all the men that can be spared and ordered me to defend the Pass. I realize what a terrible task has been given me. And yet I feel that this is the most glorious moment of my life. What I do is done for my beloved country. No sacrifice can be too great." -Brigadier General Gregorio del Pilar (24 years old) ( November 14, 1875—December 2, 1899), (KIA, 1st December 1899, Battle of Tirad Pass)