Can you name the innovations that necessitated these new terms: “static billboard,” “wet signature,” “paper book,” “traditional cigarette”? Think “electronic” — electronic billboards, e-signatures, ...

Although musical automatons, wind-up music boxes, and player pianos were around earlier, before Thomas Edison’s introduction of the phonograph cylinder in 1878 and its worldwide popularity in the ...

Here's a linguistic oddity for you: Retronyms are names for things that have to be altered after newer versions appear. What retronym was needed after the electric guitar arrived? Acoustic guitar.

“Retronym” is a word coined by Frank Mankiewicz, George McGovern’s campaign director, to delineate previously unnecessary distinctions. Examples include “acoustic guitar,” “analog watch,” “natural ...

Example - " Nobody ever heard of analog clocks until digital clocks became common, so `analog clock' is a retronym" ...

The song of this week is 'Retronym of love' by Mekakushe, the ending song for one of the latest Japanese anime series, Kowloon Generic Romance. Koji Asano, a Melbourne-based Japanese voice actor and ...