Oh dear. Don't you hate it when blog entries go MIA? Well, here's a synopsis of the several paragraphs that used to be here. News is the plural of new. And while that seems very odd, because in English we don't use plural adjectives, it's actually a word that we took from the French--who refer to the newest, latest, greatest information as 'les nouvelles' or 'the news.' And if I remember correctly the word 'news' showed up in the English language sometime in the 14th century.
News is not, as commonly believed, a shorthand for north, south, east west. So now you know!
Word!
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