msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) (03/28/85)
Okay, here is the list of all retronyms I was mailed. For those who missed the first posting, a retronym is a noun fitted with an adjective it never used to need but now can't get along without (because the default meaning of the noun has changed). Thanks to ihuxb!wfmans, aecom!werner (Craig Werner), rochester!FtG, dartvax!andyb (Andy Behrens), and me. Thank you also for mailing to me rather than posting followups. I have edited or deleted a few contributions that were not really retronyms. acoustic guitar black and white TV broadcast TV dumb terminal hardcopy terminal horse-drawn carriage human computer live performance manual phonograph manual typewriter natural childbirth natural language natural turf natural wood/leather/pearl etc. (natural almost ANYTHING, except nuclear reactor; one you're bound to see regularly soon: natural heart!) optical (light) microscope optical (light) telescope organic vegetables prop airplane real chocolate stage actor steam locomotive Mark Brader