That’s what I thought when I was a kid but I was told I was wrong!

Acronyms didn’t become popular until fairly recently, so if the word is at least a century old, odds are that it isn’t an acronym.

But when I take a brake, doesn’t that mean I’m stopping work, hitting the brakes?

When I diffuse a situation, doesn’t that mean I’m thinning out the tension or whatever?

People make up whatever reason they need to avoid going to a dictionary to understand what they’re writing.

(It’s break and defuse, in case anyone was wondering. The first doesn’t need explanation, but defuse is because you want to cut the fuse off from the thing that’s going to blow up, the thing being the situation)

news (n.) 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.”

This is why we don’t have nice things… we rather think that an incorrect statement from a random unknown person on the internet comes from someone lazy or nefarious, that from someone just making a joke.

I think it is funny to think of ‘NEWS’ as a abbreviation, why else would so many news media print it in capitals.