[Ads-l] New retronyms: analogue phone and analogue handset

[James A. Landau]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 22:09:24 Zone+0200 Hugo <hugovk at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

<quote>A couple of terms that cropped up in January: analogue phone and
analogue handset, retronyms for a non-smart digital phone, a
dumbphone, a feature phone.

The type of phone is still definitely a digital phone, with computer
chips and CPUs, using the same digital networks as smartphones,
although cheaper and with fewer functions.

The Independent, 12 January 2016:
---
The actor Eddie Redmayne ditched his smartphone in favour of an
analogue handset to help him live “in the moment”, he has revealed.<snip>
<end quote>

I have always seen "analog" (as opposed to "digital") spelt without the trailing "ue".
Is this a new spelling?  A British usage? (Isn't the Independent a British newspaper?)

   - Jim Landau

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