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minus-squareFugtig Fisk@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoThis is why we dont have cool things any more… we make up our own knowledge just because it seems to fit
minus-squarezarkanian@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoAcronyms 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.
minus-squareBleatingZombie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoThat’s what I thought when I was a kid but I was told I was wrong!
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agonews (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 dont have cool things any more… we make up our own knowledge just because it seems to fit
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.
That’s what I thought when I was a kid but I was told I was wrong!
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.”