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Retronym: A new word or phrase coined for an old object or concept whose original name has come to be used for something else, is no longer unique, or is otherwise inappropriate or misleading.

Retronym Contest: What Do You Call a Non-Internet Librarian ...
Last year, Information Today, the organizers of the Internet Librarian conference, held a contest to find a retronym for a non-Internet librarian.

What does one call the term that causes the emergence of a ...
But I think it would be useful to have a word to denote the neologism ("electric guitar") that caused the retronym neologism to come into being. I looked around and didn't find any such word. Before I coined one myself, I wanted to make ...

Retronym Contest: What Do You Call a Non-Internet Librarian?
Last year, Information Today, the organizers of the Internet Librarian conference, held a contest to find a "retronym" for a non-Internet librarian. A retronym is the revision of a word or phrase necessitated due to technological ...

Influence and Similarity in Photography
On James Danziger's blog “The Year in Pictures” comes this discussion of photographic inspiration, emulation or outright copying…You decide. The discussion centers around Paul Fusco's Robert F. Kennedy funeral train photos. ...

Unforseen Consequences of an Unforseen Crisis
The New York Times reports on a strange link between the subprime mortgage crisis and the West Nile virus:. An aerial survey (of Bakersfield, California) suggested the connection: foreclosures and abandoned homes produced a landscape ...

Without a Car (by Choice) in Los Angeles
If I could manage it, I'd be bicoastal — live part of the year in New York, part of the year in LA. Instead, I indulge myself by living virtually in LA…by visiting the blog Living in Los Angeles Without a Car (LILAWAC). ...

Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
Great photographer of mid-century modernist architecture in Los Angeles. A new film has been made about Julius Shulman that I'm intrigued to see. View the trailer.

RETRONYM WHAT'S A RETRONYM? LIST OF RETRONYMS.
Once called simply television, now the retronym is used to distinguish it from color television, which is now more commonly referred to by the unadorned term. Along the same lines: broadcast television, free-to-air television, ...

The Retronym
The retronym's a useful word, A favorite of the language nerd. It's coined when innovation's done And then refers to Version One. To wit, our mail was simply mail Till e-mail forced the added “snail.” I had to wait till I was grown ...