BTW, check merriam-webster's bluesky. Its really good.
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A tweet saying "It took me 19 years to figure out NEWS stands for "notable events, weather and sports" 🤔". It has a reply from Merriam-Webster saying "No."
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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come on, y'all. it clearly stands for North, East, West, South!
i love folk etymology.
"News" is actually the "new things". The plural of "new".
does this make a history book "the olds"?
if you want to coin that term, i'll support it
edit - but until now, the "olds" has always been the name we gave my grandpa's old eight-eight
Why stop there?
new(adj.)
Middle English neue, from Old English neowe, niowe, earlier niwe "made or established for the first time, fresh, recently made or grown; novel, unheard-of, different from the old; untried, inexperienced, unused," from Proto-Germanic *neuja-(source also of Old Saxon niuwi, Old Frisian nie, Middle Dutch nieuwe, Dutch nieuw, Old High German niuwl, German neu, Danish and Swedish ny, Gothic niujis "new").
proto-germanic is fascinating. it's a whole "conceptual language" made entirely out of assumptions, and i love it.
i assume you're aware of RobWords on youtube? he also does another show called Words Unraveled. if you're a word nerd like me, i'm sure you'd love boþ.
edit: #HARDCORE Þ
Thanks. I’ll check.