Why would you trust the Merriam Webster Brand account? Have you seen brand Twitter lately? Don’t trust the people behind these accounts, they’re only doing it for clicks.
Well it should!
Can we get Huey Lewis’s take on this?
Backronym
News is also a verb.
- “I newsed Sandy about the factory.”
- “I was newsing it up with Henry.”
You wish I was joking.
“I was newsing it up with Henry” sounds like an innuendo.
if it wasn’t before it is now
My favorite part is when the news yell “It’s newsing time!” and news all over the place
I can’t believe that the news stole morbius’ tag line
Now 'Ere’s What’s Shit
Now Ending: William Shatner
And “No” stands for “Nicely Observed”.
I always thought it stood for Negative Objections
NO!
Negative Ecology Weakens Sumerians
Never Eat Wedded Shreat
I can eat the unmarried ones though, right?
Wedded, you say?
I always thought it was a pluralisation of “new” as in what are the new things I should know about, or what are the “news”
No that can’t be it
yah that’s pretty much it, it comes from middle english newys which means “new things”
that feels like a slur for some reason
i’m now starting a movement to say “newies” instead of “news”
Newies sounds so much more fun, why did we change it to news :(
Australia didn’t yet exist
Nobody Enjoys Wet Socks
SovCits furiously writing that down
North. East. West. South. !
That’s what I figured it was when I was a kid. Same letters as the compass rose, information from around the world.
That’s what I learnt the origin of the word was.
My English teacher was dead serious when she told me that too
The odd and doubtful construction probably accounts for the absurd folk-etymology (attested by 1640 but originally, and in 18c. usually, in jest-books) that claims it to be an abbreviation of north east south west, as though “information from all quarters of the compass.”
To be fair to her, its an old myth
Naked Ewoks Will Stab
Newt Enjoying Wet Salamanders
