[Ads-l] 'Nonfiction novel" arrives at the West Indies

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> "Fiction novel" is a nice retronym, up there with "analog watch", =
> "biological mother", and "World War I"
>

"Frontlash, frontslash, frontwoods." I heard the last for the first time
only today, though it's easily Googled back to the 19th C.


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-Wilson
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