Etymologie, Etimología, Étymologie, Etimologia, Etymology
UK Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte, Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord, Regno Unito di Gran Bretagna e Irlanda del Nord, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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News stories

• Amazon deforestation 29 September 2008
• No mobiles for Californian rail workers 24 September 2008
• Argentines head for EU 17 September
• Hoarder postman 15 September 2008
• World's biggest physics experiment gets underway 10 September 2008
• Noisy cows 8 September 2008
• Missing father 5 September 2008
• Young Britons shy away from learning languages 1 September 2008
• Obama accepts nomination for US presidency 29 August 2008
• NASA delays spacecraft launch 25 August 2008
• Sad story of Colin the whale 22 August 2008
• Musharraf resigns 18 August 2008
• US: Russian violence in Georgia not acceptable 11 August 2008
• Arctic dispute map 6 August 2008
• UK hacker could face prison in the US 30 July 2008
• China's new anti-pollution measures 28 July 2008
• Bangladesh hopes for fair elections 23 July 2008
• China 'could reach Moon by 2020' 16 July 2008
• Jabs not to blame for Gulf War Syndrome 7 July 2008
• Mongolia violence 2 July 2008
• India to confront climate change 30 June 2008
• Marriage training in Saudi Arabia 25 June 2008
• International Whaling Commission convenes 23 June 2008
• Killed journalists' memorial opens in London 18 June 2008
• Chavez calls for FARC to end fight 9 June 2008
• Obama declares nomination win 4 June 2008
• End of monarchy in Nepal 28 May 2008
• Chinese mourn quake dead 19 May 2008
• First UK aid plane lands in Burma 14 May 2008
• Lie detectors target fraud 7 May 2008
• Concentrating Solar Power 28 April 2008
• Clinton wins Pennsylvania primaries 23 April 2008
• Former Deputy PM's eating disorder 21 April 2008
• Somali pirates face prosecution in France 16 April 2008
• Holocaust train 14 April 2008
• Germany auto restaurant 9 April 2008
• Mumbai no honking day 7 April 2008
• NATO membership for Georgia and Ukraine held off 4 April 2008
• Zimbabwe election results still unknown 2 April 2008
• Women's Studies to end in UK universities 26 March 2008
• Middle East's first women only hotel 24 March 2008
• International Year of the Potato 21 March 2008
• Israel's secret service goes public 19 March 2008
• Tibet unrest 17 March 2008
• Argentine false inheritance case 12 March 2008
• South Korea swaps first astronaut 10 March 2008
• Sydney's war on flying foxes 5 March 2008
• Russia's presidential election 3 March 2008
• Nissan Navara scores worst for safety 27 February 2008
• Obesity epidemic 20 February 2008
• Everest heroes honoured in Nepal 13 February 2008
• Indian yoga guru dies 6 February 2008
• Sarkozy vs. Ryanair 1 February 2008
• Hostage gang arrested in Venezuela 30 January 2008
• Heavy snow hits China 28 January 2008
• Compulsory cooking classes 23 January 2008
• Australia sheep shearer shortage 21 January 2008
• Italy in rubbish crisis 16 January 2008
• UK biometric visas 14 January 2008
• France introduces smoking ban 2 January 2008

Business stories

• China milk scandal continues 26 September 2008
• US to tackle financial crisis 19 September 2008
• European recession 12 September 2008
• Google launches web browser 3 September 2008
• British airports 20 August 2008
• Commodities prices fall 15 August 2008
• California cash crisis 1 August 2008
• IMF worried about rising prices 18 July 2008
• Mexico China trade talks 11 July 2008
• Starbucks to close 600 US shops 4 July 2008
• Gates steps down 27 June 2008
• Air Canada to cut 2,000 jobs 20 June 2008
• Truckers strike worldwide 13 June 2008
• Fuel protests in India 6 June 2008
• France investigates former co-head of Airbus owner 30 May 2008
• Music downloads 23 May 2008
• Rice harvest threat 16 May 2008
• Spain shipwreck treasure claim 9 May 2008
• Bolivia's economy in for stronger state control 2 May 2008
• Credit Suisse losses 25 April 2008
• South Korea resumes imports of US beef 18 April 2008
• Teacake wrangle 11 April 2008
• Germany auto restaurant 9 April 2008
• Heathrow Terminal 5 chaos 31 March 2008
• Mozzarella recall 28 March 2008
• Bear convicted of stealing honey 14 March 2008
• Warning on food price inflation 7 March 2008
• Wheat prices hit record highs 29 February 2008
• Germany, Liechtenstein in tax row 22 February 2008
• BA and Virgin to pay for price fixing 15 February 2008
• US economic stimulus package 8 February 2008
• French rogue trader costs bank 7bn dollars 25 January 2008
• Zimbabwe's $10m banknotes 18 January 2008
• Holiday cost in Russia 11 January 2008
• Shortage of rice in Bangladesh 4 January 2008

Arts and sports stories

• Famous US stadium closes 22 September 2008
• Venice Film Festival gets underway 27 August 2008
• Last farewells to Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish 13 August 2008
• China's Olympic expectations 8 August 2008
• Solzhenitsyn tributes 4 August 2008
• Scrum for last Olympic tickets 25 July 2008
• Dark Knight breaks box-office record 21 July 2008
• Tiger 'to be sporting billionaire' 14 July 2008
• Concerns over 2010 World Cup 9 July 2008
• Fashion guru Yves Saint Laurent dies 2 June 2008
• Crystal skulls 'are modern fakes' 26 May 2008
• Champions League Moscow final 21 May 2008
• Exciting end to football season 12 May 2008
• 'Newseum' 5 May 2008
• Grand Theft Auto IV launched 20 April 2008
• NY Philharmonic visits North Korea 25 February 2008
• McCartney divorce 11 February 2008
• Rio carnival 4 February 2008
• Chinese ice sculptures melting 9 January 2008
• India suspend Australia cricket tour 7 January 2008

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The word "news" did not come about because it was the plural of "new". It came from the first letters of the words North, East, West and South. This was because information was being gathered from all different directions.

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English Usage in the News

• 1. Oh, R-o-ob, The Bad Words Won't Go Away
• 2. Dictionary web site can get you 'embedded' with latest trends of speech
• 3. WORD For word: Do you ‘gnow’ about ‘gnosis’?
• 4. Dialect regions of the United States
• 5. No Mark of Distinction
• 6. How does ‘cool’ stay that way?
• 7. Lesson in Street Slang for Charles
• 8. A trusty cinematic sidekick can kick a star to the curb
• 9. 2K3 embeds some new terms in our vocabularies
• 10. Learn Txt MSG Language
• 11. Lynne Truss's Top 10 books for wordsmiths
• 12. 'Campaign for better English' entries
• 13. Bubba wants to know: Why do we say 'a long ways to go'?
• 14. 'The Quest' to be launched
• 15. I'm sorry about my name, my mum was a fan of Footballers' Wives
• 16. Euphemistially Speaking ...
• 17. The state of our English
• 18. How to bamboozle through wordplay
• 19. Kemmick Column: Grammar adapts to illiterates
• 20. Spanglish moves into mainstream
• 21. With ephedra, what's in a name can be frightening
• 22. Picking those occasional moments to chase our tails
• 23. Does anyone know why a dog is called a "pooch"?
• 24. 'Re-', as in 'reinvention'
• 25. Richard Lederer is the master of English's idiosyncratic idioms
• 26. Updating an elementary lexicon
• 27. The Surnames of the Maltese Islands
• 28. 2003 Words of the Year
• 29. THE WORD IN QUESTION: Four-letter word has colorful past, multiple uses
• 30. Words of mouth
• 31. Voices: The B-Word
• 32. Where did the name Europe come from?
• 33. Just Like, Er, Words, Not, Um, Throwaways
• 34. The Deplorable Words
• 35. Fighting the death sentence

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