• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, the N, E, W, S construction absolutely sounds like a bacronym.

      To me, it was always a short form of newspaper, which was a distributed paper with the latest events. So I was probably not far off, just not as old as the actual etymology (I’m guessing “news” was a thing far before paper was a thing in the west).