NEWS

First thing I do in the morning is to read the news in newspaper websites and Google news. Today there was not much of interesting news. So I got bored started thinking about what news is all about. NEWS, I have always known as an acronym for North, East, West and South. Knowing information from all corners of earth is what news is all about. The explanation was too convincing and I have never doubted that it would be otherwise. But when I tried to search for something else about news and ended up reading about what is NEWS in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News). I got some bad news while reading about news, know what??

NEWS is not an acronym of north, east, west and south as I have always thought and confirmed off but it is a plural form of NEW. What plural form of NEW??????

Have you ever said news things for new things???

It doesn’t sound convincing right!!!!!

So I started reading with great interest about news, then the link to snopes (http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/news.htm) cleared it. It says some words even if they are adjective have plural form. One thing is I gained a new insight in English through this. So the purpose I started reading newspaper yielded some results today. On the other hand I also thought of why I have accepted this acronym without questioning all these days?

So don’t accept anything without questioning even if it is too obvious. Questioning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It rings a bell at back of my mind I remember something I don’t know whether its poem or quotation by someone but here it goes like this

“ my six stalwart soldiers

when, where, why, how, which, what”

the meaning is still clear in my mind before accepting any fact or solution try to answer the following six questions and try to analyze the solution before believing in it.