"_sea_ mines"

[Laurence Horn]

Yup, another entry for the retronym files.  Not quite up to the standard set by "biological mother", though, or "World War I".  I'm also partial, this time of the quadrennium, to the "human poll".  And of course now we have the "fiction novel".

LH

On Jan 1, 2012, at 3:06 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> Like unto "_front_ slash"?
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> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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