Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> I've heard "frontslash" as the retronym for the earlier one
> that isn't "backslash."

Ah, retronyms, a fun concept. I have a small collection of geographic
retronyms: Old Castile, Great Britain, East Indies, Baja California,
Lower Saxony, East Prussia, Asia Minor, City of London, Washington DC.

Back on topic, though, it strikes me that a process akin to retronymy
happens when variants of a letter are specialized, e.g. the
"single-storey" and "two-storey" forms of <a> in IPA. When such
specialists are adopted in an everyday orthography, do they acquire
fillips to distinguish them further from their former twins?

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