Favorite Retronyms
From Wikipedia:
"A retronym is a new name for an object or concept to differentiate the original form or version of it from a more recent form or version. The original name is most often augmented with an adjective (rather than being completely displaced) to account for later developments of the object or concept itself."
- acoustic guitar
- AM radio
- bar soap
- biological parent
- black and white TV
- brick and mortar store
- classical music
- cloth diaper
- cold water faucet
- dirt road
- field hockey
- home movie
- hot chocolate
- inground pool
- landline phone
- manual transmission
- optical zoom
- organic farming
- Orthodox Judaism
- hard copy
- push lawnmower
- raw milk
- real numbers
- regular coffee
- rotary telephone
- 78 RPM records
- silent film
- sit-down restaurant
- snail mail
- Viennese waltz
- whole milk
- World War I
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