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For example, conventional (non-microwave) oven, or conventional weapon (one which does not incorporate chemical, biological or nuclear payloads). Classic Doctor Who: Used to distinguish the original series of the classic show from the 21st century sequel, New Doctor Who. This retronym is used by the BBC when both of these shows air.
A retronym is a newer name for something that differentiates it from something else that is newer, similar, or seen in everyday life; thus, ... For example, the term ...
"Old Mexico" is an example of a retronym that gradually fell into disuse, and is rarely heard today outside of Westerns. Simón Bolívar united Venezuela, New Granada, and Ecuador under the name Colombia. After the union was later dissolved, New Granada changed its name to Colombia.
An example of a backronym as a mnemonic is the Apgar score, used to assess the health of newborn babies.The rating system was devised by and named after Virginia Apgar.Ten years after the initial publication, the backronym APGAR was coined in the US as a mnemonic learning aid: appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, and respiration. [6]
For example, at the top of this talk page is mentioned 'vinyl record' and it's use today as contrasted in meaning to it's original use, which itself was a retronym. Originally, the term was a retronym used to distinguish from the older technologies used in cutting records.
Web 1.0 is a retronym referring to the first stage of the World Wide Web's evolution, from roughly 1989 to 2004. According to Graham Cormode and Balachander Krishnamurthy, "content creators were few in Web 1.0 with the vast majority of users simply acting as consumers of content". [13]
Retronym: creating a new word to denote an old object or concept whose original name has come to be used for something else; Oxymoron: a combination of two contradictory terms; Zeugma and Syllepsis: the use of a single phrase in two ways simultaneously; Pun: deliberately mixing two similar-sounding words; Slang: the use of informal words or ...
Bay Street — Canada's financial industry (similar to Wall Street), after Bay Street, the main street of Toronto's financial district; Beltway — the pundits, political leaders, and opinion-makers of Washington, D.C., after the highway surrounding the city