| 词汇 | news |
| 词源 | news. News is conveyed by letter, word or mouth And comes to us from North, East, West and South. Contrary to the old rhyme above, which helped popularize the myth, the word news wasn’t coined from the first letters of the major points of the compass. The word was originally spelled newes and derives from the Old English word niwes, meaning “new.” The legend possibly originated with old newspapers printing a replica of the globe with compass points on their masthead. But the word is much older than the earliest newspapers. |
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