Date:    Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:05:01 -0500
<br>From:    Mark Mandel <Mark[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DRAGONSYS.COM>
<br>Subject: letters on paper
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<br>Avi Arditti wrote (discussing "g /uh/ zillion"):
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<br>For instance, we just finished a contest asking listeners to suggest new names for traditional letters written on paper, to
<br>distinguish them from e-mail.
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<br>FWIW, I call this stuff "hardmail", on the model of "hard copy" (as opposed to a copy of an electronic file, that is simply a
<br>duplicate, another electronic file). This term, and whatever your listeners suggested (what won, BTW?), are
<br>RETRONYMS.
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