Etymologie, Etimología, Étymologie, Etimologia, Etymology, (griech.) etymología, (lat.) etymologia, (esper.) etimologio
UK Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, Reino Unido de Gran Bretańa e Irlanda del Norte, Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord, Regno Unito di Gran Bretagna e Irlanda del Nord, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, (esper.) Britujo
weisse Schimmel, Retronyme, Pleonasmen, Pléonasme, Pleonasm, (esper.) pleonasmoj

corsinet - Redundant Redundancies

• 1. The state of being redundant.
• 2. A superfluity; an excess.
• 3. Unnecessary repetition.

Retronym (W3)

• Analog clock
• hard copy
• landline phone

The Merriam lexies, always strong on etymology, cite the earliest usage they can find of "retronym" in this column in 1980, which credited Frank Mankiewicz, then president of National Public Radio, as the coiner.

The same cultural shift happened in baseball: few fans say "night game" any more, because most games are played at night, and it’s the former time of play that needs a modifier, which gave rise to the phrase "day game".
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That newly necessary modification of an old noun is called a retronym. It was defined in the fourth edition of the unabridged American Heritage Dictionary as "a word or phrase created because an existing term that was once used alone needs to be distinguished from a term referring to a new development".
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• "watch" - "digital watch" - to the retronym "analog watch"
• "mail" - "e-mail" - to the retronym "snail mail"
• "television" - "LCD and plasma screens" - to the retronym "console television"
• "book" - "paperback" - "softcover book" - to the retronym "hardcover book"
• "suit", "pants suit", to the retronym "skirt suit"
• "freshman" - "redshirted" - to the retronym "true freshman"
• "telephone" - "push-button phone" - "touch-tone phone" - "rotary phone" - to the retronym "land lines"
• "mail" - "voice mail" - "text message" - to the retronym "postal mail"
• "milk" - "nonfat milk", "2 percent milk", "calcium-enriched milk", "lactose-free milk", "chocolate milk", "soy milk", "half-and-half" - to the retronym "whole milk"
• "water" - "bottled water", "sparkling water", "soda water", "Bloomberg water", "Giuliani water" - to the retronym "tap water"

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• p-book
• text literacy