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Find the Retronyms
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A Retronym is a noun (e.g. mother) which due to a particular social or technological development (e.g. adoption) must be turned into a phrase noun (e.g. birth mother) to distinguish it from the new version (-adoptive mother). As with this example the development needn't wipe out the former version. Here are three groups of phrase nouns. Find the retronym
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Made for film movie/home movie
leaded petrol/unleaded petrol
Improvised comedy/scripted comedy
Made for film movie/home movie
leaded petrol/unleaded petrol
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