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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: retronyms
Message-ID: <4098@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 04:08:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 24 04:08:20 1985
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References: <532@cadovax.UUCP> <400@tymix.UUCP>
Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
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In article <400@tymix.UUCP> kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner) writes:
>In article <532@cadovax.UUCP> bob@cadovax.UUCP (Bob "Kat" Kaplan) writes:
>>How about "wood-burning fireplaces"?
>
>Have you never seen a fireplace burning coal?

Only indirectly -- I have seen electric fireplaces.  Of course, the word
"fireplace" is then a misnomer, as there is no real flame.  But it looks
like a fireplace, and it isn't burning wood.
-- 
    Barry Margolin
    ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics
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