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Backwords differ from back formations : the latter are words (often verbs) formed on existing words (often nouns) by severing an ending.
Apart from documenting linguistic treachery, however, the collecting of backwords provides capsule views of man's progress in a variety of fields.
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.
To distinguish them from backwords, they may be termed newances.
Finally, there are the objects that, while still possessing one basic nomenclature, show marked potential for confusion and hence for backwords.