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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Retronyms
Message-ID: <534@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 01:58:13 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.534
Posted: Thu Mar 21 01:58:13 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 21-Mar-85 02:28:25 EST
Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Frank Mankiewicz, son of the screenwriter Joseph, defines a *retronym*
as "a noun fitted with an adjective that it never used to need, but now
cannot do without".

William Safire, quoting this in his New York Times Magazine column,
cites these examples:

	"analog watch"
	"day baseball game"
	"therapeutic massage"
	"human-readable"

(In other words, ALL watches used to be analog, and so on.)

If you want to mail more of these to me, I'll post a summary.


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