Sentences with word «retronym»

I thought about retronyms the other day when for the first time I heard what I'd always thought of as the Internet referred to as the «Internet of knowledge.»

Zchurch broadcasts live once a week, and the virtual worshiper can participate in «real time» — a fascinating retronym, like acoustic guitar or dial telephone.

AND finally, Emma Smith writes in with a location based retronym to rival Australia's Dee Why (27 May).

With one click, you can access the hymn texts and sing along with the «live» audience — another retronym that we've long become comfortable with, thanks to stereo systems and television.

Placed under the category of «Retronyms,» the answer to which Jeopardy contestants had to pose a question was «A company called Bumkins makes this baby product, a retronym created by the disposable kind.»

Though the show was released as and is officially titled simply Star Trek, it has acquired the retronym Star Trek: The Original Series, in order to distinguish this first series from the sequels which followed.

ALSO having trouble finding the right words is Ian Freney, who says «I wonder if you or your readers have a name for the phenomenon I call a retronym, of which emcee is one example.

The shorthand word, says Howard, is neither a retronym of NS nor a clipped contraction of Nationalsozialistische.

And I knew I wanted to be taken seriously as a writer, so I needed to be published — because «traditional publishing» is a retronym and then it was just «real publishing.»

An analog watch is an example of a retronym.