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Perhaps the best example of this paradigm is the touch-tone phone, which has so edged out the older models that two backwords were formed for the old type: rotary phone and dial phone . On the other hand, cellular phones are still new enough to have their own novelty label.
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.
They aren't quite neologisms to account for new technology, like cryogenics or LED . Rather, they come from new technology looking back on old technology--and I've decided to call them backwords.
Finally, there are the objects that, while still possessing one basic nomenclature, show marked potential for confusion and hence for backwords.
The one risk in collecting backwords is that it does tend to make one feel like an antiquity, possibly deserving of a backword oneself.
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