Quote:
|
Originally Posted by blacknomi What do you think of this word, news?
1. A plural form of new?
2. Would you consider "new" a noun? Or pronoun?
3. It has nothing to do with plural; it's simply a word itself.  |
Cool.
news is a noun, so it's not the plural of the adjective 'new'. Historically, though,
news did in fact come from the adjective 'new': singular 'new' (new thing), plural 'news' (new things).
Click here for its etymology.
According to Oxford's Dictionary of Current English,
news is a plural noun that's usually treated as singular.