[Ads-l] Thirty examples of anachronyms

[Mark Mandel]

OMG, this diverted my attention to Newton's highly enjoyable article for at
least half an hour when I really ought to have been doing other stuff.

On Fri, Jan 17, 2025, 5:20 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Anachronyms have been discussed on this list before. Back in March
> 2024 Ben Zimmer suggested that former list participant W. Brewer
> coined the term:
>
> https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2024-March/165009.html
>
> Recently on Bluesky a skeet (not a bleet) from Heddwen Newton pointed
> to an article with a fun collection of  anachronyms. Below are the
> first eleven:
>
> Article: 30 examples of anachronyms
> Author: Heddwen Newton
> Website: English In Progress
> https://englishinprogress.net/blog/30-examples-of-anachronyms/
>
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