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Guy (/ ɡ aɪ / ghy, French:) is a masculine given name derived from an abbreviated version of a Germanic name that began either with witu, meaning wood, or wit, meaning wide. In French, the letter w became gu and the name became Gy or Guido.
Additionally, an identical term exists in French, "les nouvelles", which translates as the plural of "the new". "News" also does not stand for "notable events, weather, and sports". The word "news" is simply a plural form of new, and is attested in this sense from the early 15th century. [34]
Newspapers in Australia were using the term by 1912, with it appearing first in Western Australia, and was said to be short for pomegranate, with the terms "jimmy" and "jimmigrant" also in use. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The term Ten-pound Pom refers to British (subsidized) migrants to Australia and New Zealand after World War II.
The News Revolution in England: Cultural Dynamics of Daily Information (1996) Walker, Robin B. "The newspaper press in the reign of William III." Historical Journal 17#4 (1974): 691–709. in JSTOR; Williams, Keith. The English Newspaper: An Illustrated History to 1900 (1977) Williams, Kevin. Read All About it: a History of the British ...
Display rack of British newspapers during the midst of the News International phone hacking scandal (5 July 2011). Many of the newspapers in the rack are tabloids. Tabloid journalism is a popular style of largely sensationalist journalism, which takes its name from the tabloid newspaper format: a small-sized newspaper also known as a half broadsheet. [1]
News and Journalism in the UK (Routledge, 2009). Marr, Andrew. My trade: a short history of British journalism (2004) Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers (1980) pp. 320–29; Morison, Stanley. The History of the Times: Volume 1: The "Thunderer" in the Making 1785-1841.
Guy's mother's family were recusant Catholics, and his cousin, Richard Cowling, became a Jesuit priest. [5] Guy was an uncommon name in England, but may have been popular in York on account of a local notable, Sir Guy Fairfax of Steeton. [6] The date of Fawkes's birth is unknown, but he was baptised in the church of St Michael le Belfrey, York ...
In the early 1960s, dude became prominent in surfer culture as a synonym of guy or fella. The female equivalent was "dudette" or "dudess", but these have both fallen into disuse and "dude" is now also used as a unisex term. This more general meaning of "dude" started creeping into the mainstream in the mid-1970s.