I’m surprised. Merriam-Webster is usually the Urban Dictionary of print dictionaries. I’d have more expected them to change their definition because “muh common usage.”
Hacks. OED or death.
I love that there are strong opinions like this out there for dictionaries.
You’ve convinced me. I’m ride or die for OED now too.
I never really thought about choosing a side, but I am a staunch supporter of the Oxford comma. I guess now I know which side I’m on. Let’s fucking go
I once read an article praising the 1913 edition of the Webster’s dictionary and I have been using it ever since (in the form of GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English). That with etymonline makes the reading experience quite pleasant.
Of course! I’d have thought that went without saying. I’m not a barbarian.
Well, you and I were already basically besties, weren’t we @The_Picard_Maneuver?
NORTH EAST WEST SOUTH
At least that’s what they taught us in journalism school
That doesn’t even make sense, who would refer to cardinal directions in that order?
Oops. Should I not have done that? I mean if anyone had told me that sort of thing is frowned upon I never would’ve…
They’re joking. You should actually always eat while shitting and shit while eating. No exceptions.
Why would I do extra research to prove my professor wrong instead of just listening to what they said for the test? Idk you’re right but also assuming a lot lmfao
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the “news of the day” and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy.
Gosh, I dunno. Couldn’t have anything to do with the subject matter, maybe?
Wait you’re sticking with that it actually happened not that you were joking? What f-tier journalism school did you go to? And they tested on the origin of the world news, already an insane thing to do to in a journalistic qualification, AND they expected a totally absurd and obviously false answer?
Were you training to work at fox?
Fun fact they were going to name compasses NEWS but the name was already taken
No actually means “noteworthy observation” so it’s nice to get that validation.
Idk if all the people in this comment section are joking, it means things that are new. New information about the world.
From the Etymonline website:
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.”
The English word was construed as singular at least from the 1560s, but it sometimes still was regarded as plural 17c.-19c. 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.”
The meaning “tidings, intelligence of something that has lately taken place” is from early 15c. The meaning “radio or television program presenting current events” is from 1923. Bad news in the extended sense of “unpleasant person or situation” is from 1926. Expression no news, good news can be traced to 1640s. Expression news to me “something I did not know” is from 1889.