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Judge removes Griffin from office for engaging in the January 6 insurrection - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (www.citizensforethics.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the N, E, W, S construction absolutely sounds like a bacronym.

To me, it was always a short form of newspaper, which was a distributed paper with the latest events. So I was probably not far off, just not as old as the actual etymology (I'm guessing "news" was a thing far before paper was a thing in the west).

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