Talk:news

news stream completely missing in this and all other dictionaries!
Wiktionary has the chance to be the first dictionary to record one of the most important and common and descriptive words of our time! --Espoo (talk) 10:59, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

(uncountable)
How did this word, taking into account its etymology, came to be uncountable? --Backinstadiums (talk) 18:08, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Error
My previous edit summary contains a typo: "merges" instead of "merged". Glades12 (talk) 17:47, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

singular
[https://books.google.es/books?id=w1WuDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA546&dq=From%20the%2016c.%20to%20the%2018c.%20news%20%E2%80%98%20tidings%E2%80%99%20was%20construed%20either%20as%20a%20plural%20or%20a%20singular%20noun%2C%20but%20since%20the%20early%2019c.%20it%20has%20normally%20been%20treated%20as%20a%20singular%20(e.g.%20News%20is%20what%20a%20chap%20who%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20care%20much%20about%20anything%20wants%20to%20read%E2%80%94E.%20Waugh%2C%201938).&hl=es&pg=PA546#v=onepage&q=From%20the%2016c.%20to%20the%2018c.%20news%20%E2%80%98%20tidings%E2%80%99%20was%20construed%20either%20as%20a%20plural%20or%20a%20singular%20noun,%20but%20since%20the%20early%2019c.%20it%20has%20normally%20been%20treated%20as%20a%20singular%20(e.g.%20News%20is%20what%20a%20chap%20who%20doesn%E2%80%99t%20care%20much%20about%20anything%20wants%20to%20read%E2%80%94E.%20Waugh,%201938).&f=false News ‘ tidings’ since the early 19c. has normally been treated as a singular.]

It was only in the 19th century that the singular became the exclusively standard usage.

What meaning of singular are these authors using? --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:23, 9 August 2021 (UTC)


 * The first one gives the example "News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read", i.e "news is" (singular), not "news are" (plural). However, I'd say it is uncountable: the chap wants to read some news, not a news. Equinox ◑ 20:03, 9 August 2021 (UTC)