The theory that “news” is an acronym whose letters stand for the four points of the compass — North, East, West and South — is an attractive, superficially plausible theory, but, like many attractive theories, it is nonsense. In truth, “news” in English seems to have come about because someone noticed that the French word for “news or current events” is “nouvelles” (which is simply the plural of the French word for “new”) and decided we should do the same thing in English. So there’s no acronym in “news,” but we do get to blame the illogic of the word on the French, which is better than nothing.
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