{"id":10712,"date":"2020-04-26T22:31:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T04:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/?p=10712"},"modified":"2022-02-17T16:06:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T22:06:41","slug":"new-isnt-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/new-isnt-news\/","title":{"rendered":"new is not news, but they clearly knew each other, etymologists claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a common mistake i frequently hear in class is confusion between the adjective <em>new<\/em> and the uncountable noun <em>news<\/em>. u should never say <em>a news<\/em>, and even with a creative spelling like the one used by this 80s band, u still should never pluralize new (nu) or any adjective in english&#8211;<em>news<\/em> shoes? no way<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nu Shooz - I Can&#039;t Wait (Official Music Video)\" width=\"758\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UJ1tBVtYOBc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h4>\n<p>with this in mind, i was a little surprised to find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/news-etymology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this etymological analysis<\/a> by <strong>david mikkelson<\/strong>\u00a0on the fact-checking site\u00a0<strong>snopes.com&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>[the] explanation sounds a bit <em>odd<\/em> to us, because <i>new<\/i> is an adjective and not a noun, so how could it have a plural form? the answer is that <em>although<\/em> adjectives don\u2019t generally have plurals in english, they do in other languages. in some <em>romance languages<\/em>, for example, adjectives change to agree in number with the nouns they <em>modify<\/em>. in spanish a white house is a <i>casa blanca<\/i>, but white houses are <i>casas blancas<\/i>. <em>likewise<\/em>, in french a tall woman is a <i>grande femme<\/i>, but tall women are <i>grandes femmes<\/i>. when <i>nouveau<\/i>, the french word for <i>new<\/i>, <em>modifies<\/em> a plural (feminine) noun, it becomes <i>nouvelles<\/i>, which is also the french word for <i>news<\/i>. not so strange <em>after all<\/em>.<\/h4>\n<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong> is <em>strange<\/em>, <em>weird<\/em>. <strong><em>although<\/em><\/strong> <em>contrasts<\/em> ideas. it is similar to <em>but&#8211;<\/em>like <em>but<\/em> it can appear between the two contrasting ideas; different from <em>but<\/em> it can appear before the two contrasting ideas like it does in this example. the <em><strong>romance languages<\/strong><\/em> evolved from latin and include spanish, french, italian, portuguese and romanian. \u00a0<strong><em>modify<\/em><\/strong> refers to the <em>extra detail<\/em> that adjectives give to nouns. \u00a0<strong><em><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0means <em>in the same way<\/em>.  means <em>despite appearing to be the opposite<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mr-bean-odd-meme.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12472\" src=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mr-bean-odd-meme-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"meme of mr. bean making a skeptical, squished up face the text reads hmm that sounds a little odd--vocabulario en ingl\u00e9s\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mr-bean-odd-meme-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mr-bean-odd-meme-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/mr-bean-odd-meme.jpeg 948w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><em>it does sound odd at first, but it&#8217;s actually not that odd after all\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>so the origin of the word <em>news<\/em>\u00a0in english is the plural of <em>new<\/em> in french. \u00a0snopes is an investigative website and they were  (showing that it&#8217;s not true) the idea that <em>news<\/em>\u00a0is an acronym composed of the words <em>north<\/em>, <em>east<\/em>, <em>west<\/em> and <em>south<\/em> or notable events, weather and sports. additionally snopes debunks another proposed acronym&#8230;.<\/p>\n<h4><em>likewise<\/em>, the word \u2018newspaper\u2019 is not an acronym formed from the words \u201cnorth, east, west, south, past and present event report.\u201d a newspaper is so named because it is literally paper on which has been printed information about recent events (<em>i.e<\/em>., \u2018news\u2019).<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ie-def\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener sponsored noreferrer\"><strong><em>i.e<\/em><\/strong>.<\/a> comes from the latin <em>id est<\/em>. it means <em>that is<\/em> or\u00a0<em>in other words<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>the <strong>english practice extra<\/strong> video for this post has several examples of correct and incorrect ways to use\u00a0<em>new<\/em> and <em>news<\/em>. click CC for subtitles in english or spanish.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"english practice extra--new is not news but they knew each other\" width=\"758\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pEymv2X1Vic?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>do u have any questions or comments about this post or the video? 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