Anachronistic names aren't necessarily corporate death – otherwise Facebook and Scottish Widows would be in more trouble than they are.
The twenty-first century incarnation of the world's oldest and most famous cabaret, founded in 1889 by Charles Zidler, is not what you'd expect after Luhrmann's high-octane, surreally anachronistic film of the same name, but if your curiosity is pricked by the film, the real thing is a magnificent night out, if you go prepared to enjoy it ironically.
The royal prerogative is, as its name suggests, an ancient, anachronistic, arcane political instrument that is, fundamentally, anti-democratic.
The word "plantations" in Rhode Island's official state name, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is anachronistic.
Of all my friends, I have been the most vocal about how a woman shouldn't change her last name upon marriage, a practice I find anachronistic.
As a modern feminist, there was no way I was going to submit to the anachronistic, sexist tradition of taking my husband's last name.
This is perhaps why -- beyond the author's name -- Tom Paine's short fiction has an anachronistic feel.
The name we've been using for this stuff is anachronistic.
With luck, it can make some progress by speaking a lingua franca such as Java or.NET, and by brandishing widely used passwords that are the internet equivalent of its mother's maiden name.Sooner or later, however, the byte encounters some truly anachronistic sentries, called "legacies".
Might the figure of the "populist savior" be anachronistic?
