Pre-Archaic Industrial Jargon

[Larry Sheldon]

On 3/10/2012 9:04 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:

> Computational linguist Bill McNeill recently blogged about another
> kind of anachronym -- "sex tape":
>
> http://cornercases.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/kim-kardashians-sex-tape/

And any "video-tape".  Did you see....?  No, but I taped it and I'll
watch it tomorrow.

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