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- Mon May 31, 2010 2:34 pm
- Forum: Chinese language
- Topic: Etymology
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Etymology
One theory is that news was developed as a special use of the plural form of new in the 14th century. In Middle English, the equivalent word was newes, like the French nouvelles and the German neues. A somewhat similar development is found in at least three Slavic languages (Czech, Slovak and Polish...