New gnus is good gnus.
How about drink sizes? Nowadays, if a place offers three sizes of drink, they’re likely to be Large, Huge, and Super-Size, or something of that sort.
What about St. Augustine, Florida? That was owned by the Spanish about 100 years before the New England colonies.
St. Louis loves it some newness.
New City School opened in 1969.
The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, known as the New Cathedral, opened in 1914. In fairness, the original cathedral, now called the Old Cathedral, is still in use.
There is a New Florissant Road. It’s an extension of Florissant Road that was built at least 60 years ago. There is no “Old Florissant Road.”
Modern art includes artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s,
“Shinkansen” is Japanese for “new trunk line.” The Shinkansen system is presently celebrating its 50th anniversary.
And at one end of the original Shinkansen line is Shin-Ōsaka Station, i.e., New Osaka Station, which is also 50 years old.
Songs continue to be Pop Music long after they’re not popular any more.
Floppy disks stopped being floppy before most people ever heard of them.
As a less extreme example: Integrated circuits were, for a while, described in terms of how integrated they were; that is, how many components had been etched onto the die. There was Small-Scale Integration (SSI), Medium-Scale Integration (MSI), and Large-Scale Integration (LSI).
A bit later, we made it up to Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI). That was some time in the 1970s, right around the time microcomputers were coming into use.
Then everyone realized how ridiculous this would become, and the name scheme stopped at VLSI, which now describes pretty much every kind of integrated circuit still in use.
(We got it all on UHF!)
True, but which doesn’t really cross here or there with the thread trope. The Spanish never got north of about Georgia, IIRC, so the Brits were free to name their area more freely than, say, Alta California de Sud. 
OK, it’s been 30+ years since HS French class, but isn’t “neuf” nine?
There are two words written “neuf” in French, one from the Latin “novem” (nine), and the other from the Latin “novus” (new),
Then there are pre-backwards mirror retro-obsolete terms like “Xbox One”, which is the third Xbox version.
The portion of the United States commonly called “The Mid-West” isn’t vary far towards the western part of the country. Once upon a time, it was.
Yeah. As a California native I always thought it oughta be called the Mid East since that’s what it is. Both attitudinally and geographically.
The Virgin Mary *
- Unless you are Catholic.
And “movies” are named, to distinguish them from still photography. Then “talkies” took over for a while, but “movies” remains.
I thought the discs themselves would still flop if you took them out of their plastic cases (not that anyone ever did).
Which, of course, also led to the the delightful frustration of people confusing rigid 3.5" “floppies” with their “hard disk.”