Backronym
Now 'Ere’s What’s Shit
Now Ending: William Shatner
News is also a verb.
- “I newsed Sandy about the factory.”
- “I was newsing it up with Henry.”
You wish I was joking.
My favorite part is when the news yell “It’s newsing time!” and news all over the place
I can’t believe that the news stole morbius’ tag line
Negative Ecology Weakens Sumerians
And “No” stands for “Nicely Observed”.
I always thought it stood for Negative Objections
NO!
Never Eat Wedded Shreat
I can eat the unmarried ones though, right?
Wedded, you say?
SovCits furiously writing that down
I always thought it was a pluralisation of “new” as in what are the new things I should know about, or what are the “news”
No that can’t be it
yah that’s pretty much it, it comes from middle english newys which means “new things”
i’m now starting a movement to say “newies” instead of “news”
Newies sounds so much more fun, why did we change it to news :(
Australia didn’t yet exist
Nobody Enjoys Wet Socks
Naked Ewoks Will Stab
Newt Enjoying Wet Salamanders
No Elefant Were Safe 😲
North. East. West. South. !
That’s what I figured it was when I was a kid. Same letters as the compass rose, information from around the world.
That’s what I learnt the origin of the word was.
My English teacher was dead serious when she told me that too
The odd and doubtful construction probably accounts for the absurd folk-etymology (attested by 1640 but originally, and in 18c. usually, in jest-books) that claims it to be an abbreviation of north east south west, as though “information from all quarters of the compass.”
To be fair to her, its an old myth
Not Enough Wild Shit
Lately I got my fill of wild shit, is there a way to change that?
Never Eat Watermelons Soggy
i’ve been doing it wrong my entire life‽
