Definitions
Etymologies
- A retronym emphasizing postal mail's slowness compared to email. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In addition to Kathleen Miller’s research and Jeffrey McQuain’s and Elizabeth Phillips’s language aid, those helping me at the Times’ Washington bureau include my assistant Anne Elise Wort, who keeps her eye out for current words, and Todd Webb, who tries to keep up with both snail mail and e-mail.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘snail mail’.
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1078 more...
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WF - retronyms
Once new generation technologies make the original products obsolete, the latter soon need an adjective in front...
For the most part ADJ+NOUN collocations where the ADJ refers to a pr...analog clock, analog synthesizer, analog watch, analog recording, conventional oven, conventional weapon, conventional airp..., conventional land..., conventional memory, conventional war, iPod classic, traditional Chine... and 197 more...
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EN - cool expressions
Trendy, funny or highly descriptive collocations
overstep the mark, open a big can of..., bad hair day, the icing on the ..., low-hanging fruit, ripple effect, big cheese, tackle an issue h..., root-and-branch r..., throw good money ..., open Pandora's box, place on the back... and 147 more...
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And the geek shall inherit the Earth
teh, interweb, lolcat, blogosphere, troll, googlewashing, spam, googling, googlewhacking, pwnage, leet, zomg and 12 more...
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range change
there is a long list of word combos where the one sound change leads to a captivating mini-slogan - near beer, tie dye, jelly belly ..................Here's a list for discovering a new few
range change, new few, dehisce devise, peer fear, fly sky, air there, rear mirror, wry try, mombo combo, middle riddle, fun won, riddle griddle and 82 more...
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Retronyms
Technology, politics, advertising, and other nefarious agents of change render innocent words ambiguous. How do we cope? Retronyms.
rotary phone, land line, free ear, acoustic guitar, whole milk, handwritten manus..., snail mail, analog watch, biological parent, birth mother, hand mixer, organic produce and 10 more...
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Distinctions that used to be unnecessary
There was a time when these things were your only option...
accoustic guitar, snail mail, day baseball, land-line phone, organic food, free-to-air telev..., black-and-white p..., analog watch, live music, manual transmission, cassette walkman, coca cola classic and 23 more...
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Words for the Modern Man
A list of words and phrases for those who are not all too familiar with the 21st century.
3G, 4G, affluenza, agritourism, auto-tune, burkini, buzz, captcha, chatroom, cloud, content farm, dramedy and 21 more...
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that's just beastly!
cat-o-nine-tails, snake in the grass, puppy love, white elephant, crocodile tears, monkey business, keep the wolf fro..., culture vulture, black sheep of th..., scapegoat, ugly duckling, swan song and 260 more...
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Noah's Park
Hello, and Welcome™! Come and visit our most diverse land of our Animalesque™ adventures. Here at Noah's Park™ we have Virtually All You'd Ever Want To See™. An experience that is related to ani...
sheep's eyes, doe-eyed, cat-eyed, bug-eyed, cat's paw, black swan, leapfrog, menagerie, cold turkey, card shark, snail's pace, bull's eye and 362 more...
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Words I never used before the Internet
Words I never used before the Internet
omg, zomg, pwned, pwnage, internet, lol, rotflmao, flamebait, asshat, cu l8r, haxor, website and 29 more...
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Take a Letter, Maria
Types of letters and correspondence
epistle, open letter, letter to the editor, business letter, cover letter, love letter, mash note, valentine, billet-doux, billet, brevet, memo and 25 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for snail mail.

bilby Fine by me. Let's turn the bugger around. Lear jets shall henceforth proceed on the ground, and only at speeds reflective of having their wheels tied together. Feb 10, 2009
sionnach
Feb 10, 2009
Was this term actually invented by Edward Lear, which would make it not a retronym?