单词 | retronym |
例句 | The Oxford report also highlights increased use of “in-person,” often in retronyms, as lexicographers refer to a new term for an existing thing that distinguishes the original from a new variant. Oxford’s 2020 Word of the Year? It’s Too Hard to Isolate 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z And like a hardcover book, “cast album” is starting to seem like a retronym. Listening to the Best (and Worst) of Broadway 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z However, when the processes of change fall into regular categories and patterns—retronyms or suppletive verbs like to be—they illuminate something bigger. Hunting for fossils in the quirks of language 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z That brings us to another hurdle: the retronym, a linguistic nicety that, in other contexts, was long of interest to William Safire, the columnist and language maven. City Room: I Now Pronounce You Noun and Adjective 2011-06-20T12:44:48Z |
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