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• snail-mail, snailmail

語源

A retronym emphasizing postal mail's slowness compared to email. The phrase itself predates the invention of email, attested since in print as early as 1968, in an Advertising Council advertisement supporting the U.S. Post Office: "Help Stamp Out Snail Mail: Use ZIP Code." (High Fidelity 18:11 [November 1968], 40.)

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈsneɪl ˌmeɪl/

名詞

snail mail (uncountable) (retronym)

1. Mail (physical material) sent in the post, especially as compared with email.

   Synonym: smail

   I came home to a mailbox stuffed with snail mail.

   • 1993 November 9, L. R. Shannon, “Peripherals: MCI Mail Changes The Nature Of Letters”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, retrieved 3 April 2014:

     To send a letter by snail mail (the Postal Service), you must still compose it, and also print it out, unless you write it by hand or on a typewriter.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

2. Mail (postal service), especially as compared with email.

   Synonym: smail

   The official notice will be sent via both email and snail mail owing to legal requirements.

派生語

派生した語

• → Dutch: snailmail