Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Retronyms

Keith Burgess-Jackson writes, "First there was a copy; then there was an electronic copy; then there was a physical copy."

To which I add:   First I had a plain old address; then I acquired an e-mail address, so that now my plain old address is a physical address.

Should we speak of retronymic families?  'Physical address' and 'snail mail' belong together in one family, 'acoustic guitar' and 'acoustic set' in another.


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