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

[Laurence Horn]

> On Feb 3, 2016, at 7:43 AM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM> wrote:
> 
> 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.


Alternately known as an acoustic phone or a brick-and-mortar phone.

LH


> 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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