A New Mexico judge ordered Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin be removed from office, effective immediately.
        • Scooter411@lemmy.ml
          51·
          11 months ago

          Well, the first three letters of news is new - it’s not new, so it’s not really news. I’m happy it happened, but it doesn’t belong.

          • explodes@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            11 months ago

            It’s a coincidence. The word “news” is made from the initials of North, East, West, and South.

            • 0x029a@lemmy.todayEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              https://www.etymonline.com/word/news

              late 14c., “new things,” plural of new (n.) “new thing” (see new (adj.)); after French nouvelles, which was used in Bible translations to render Medieval Latin nova (neuter plural) “news,” literally “new things.”

              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.”

              • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                11 months ago

                Yeah, the N, E, W, S construction absolutely sounds like a bacronym.

                To me, it was always a short form of newspaper, which was a distributed paper with the latest events. So I was probably not far off, just not as old as the actual etymology (I’m guessing “news” was a thing far before paper was a thing in the west).

    • Mx Phibb@reddthat.comOP
      1·
      11 months ago

      Whoops, my bad, I tend to forget to look for a date on articles as most of my news sources are reliable for up to date news, that is assuming they even bother to date the article