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Example sentences for: backwords

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Finally, there are the objects that, while still possessing one basic nomenclature, show marked potential for confusion and hence for backwords.
Fountain pen, dirt road, manual transmission, steam engine, hand-woven fabric, conventional weapons, general practitioner, natural childbirth, cloth diaper --these are backwords dating anywhere from the era of the jalopy to the nuclear age.
Mono sound equipment brings back the days when the phonograph rested in the den instead of in the home entertainment center, when quadraphonic might have been a malapropism for something in The Phantom of the Opera . Other backwords involve longer journeys in time: straight razors were the only razors around until the emergence of safety razors, which have in turn ceded precedence to the injector-blade and finally the twin-blade.
In the gustatory realm, backwords are common: Fresh-squeezed orange juice and hand-dipped ice cream simply make the point that most juice and ice cream no longer come that way.
It is a puzzle why certain objects acquire backwords while others retain their names and it is the newcomers that are given qualifying labels.