Provo Dispatch | 1894-03-14 | Page 1 | A Possible Derivation of "News"

A Possible Derivation of "NetvS." The word is not, as many imagine, derived from the adjective new. In former years between the years 1595 and 1730 it was a prevalent practice to put over the periodical publications of the day the initial letters of the cardinal car-dinal points of the compass, thus: N W E s Importing that those papers contained intelligence from the four quarters of the globe, and from the practice is derived de-rived the term newspaper. New York Mail and Express.