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I so love that term - 'retronym' that I had to look it up. The all-knowing Wikipedia talks about 'retronymy' and gives a great list of retronyms, including my favorite - Corn on the cob.<BR>
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<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=1><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><EM>Betty Joe Armstrong</EM></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT size=1><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><EM></EM></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT size=1><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><EM>"Be yourself - everyone else is taken." - Wilde</EM></FONT></FONT><BR><BR></FONT></FONT><EM>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Chalkboard; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 10pt" color=#000000 size=1>"When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe in one of two things:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" align=left><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Chalkboard; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 10pt" color=#000000 size=1>there will be earth upon which to stand, or you will be given wings." </FONT></DIV><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:31:05 -0800<BR>From: tstave@uoregon.edu<BR>To: libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<BR>Subject: Re: [Libs-Or] "pbook"<BR><BR>
<META name=Generator content="Microsoft SafeHTML">On the other hand, our language is full of other retronyms, which became necessary after successor technologies overtook them: witness "silent films" or "analog clocks" or "horse-drawn carriages".<BR><BR>Tom<BR><BR>On 1/19/2011 12:22 PM, Laurisa Stubblefield wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:4D374801.7070709@lclark.edu><PRE>"...print books (hereafter referred to as pbooks when it is important to
distinguish them from electronic books, or ebooks)."
No need for a new word! "A book" (analogue book) is a book is a book, as it
were. As in "would you like /a book/ or an /ebook/?" It's the format against
which the new forms must be distinguished (hence "ebook" and whatever comes
next), not the other way around.
Laurisa
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