936: Real Estate Jul 2, 2017

In English, there are the terms 'estate' and 'real estate' that both relate to property, though we don't necessarily think of the two as needing to be distinguished from each other now since the contexts in which they are used tend to be different. Moreover, the 'real' would seem an unlikely retronym in this case as the other 'estate' is not fake nor abstract. Nevertheless, 'real estate' was used for the purposes of differentiation: immovable property as opposed to personal. Other uses of 'real' in this way also include the slang phrase 'get real', and 'real time' referring to the period of time when an action takes place, not when it had been recorded.

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