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    Why is news so called - read that it stands for North, East, West and South, the direction of all the 'news' coming in but that can't be right, can it?

    Question #84073. Asked by billythebrit. (Aug 01 07 6:50 AM)


    nina300

    		"News" developed as a special use of the plural form of "new" in the 14th century. In Middle English, the equivalent word was 'newes', based on the French 'nouvelles'. It is not, as is often claimed, an acronym for "north, east, west, south".

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News




    Aug 01 07, 6:59 AM

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