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Pieanne Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

News

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What do we say? "I heard on the news", "... in the news"?
  

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'I heard on the news' if you mean via TV or radio. 'I read in the news' if you mean newspaper, magazine, internet. I suppose it is easy to say 'I heard in the news' if you are thinking of an item among the many you listened to.

— Mister Micawber

  • 'I heard on the news' if you mean via TV or radio.
  • 'I read in the news' if you mean newspaper, magazine, internet.
  • I suppose it is easy to say 'I heard in the news' if you are thinking of an item among the many you listened to.
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'I heard on the news' if you mean via TV or radio.
'I read in the news' if you mean newspaper, magazine, internet.

I suppose it is easy to say 'I heard in the news' if you are thinking of an item among the many you listened to.
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Thanks for all your prompt answersEmotion: smile
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is it true that the word "news" is derived from the initial letters of the main directions?
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Cute idea, Seyf, but I think the origin is more mundane-- I would guess it is a shortening of 'new things' or a similar phrase.
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I hear both used. However, I think in the news is correct. The confusion may be that in English "on TV" exists; therefore, in a conversation where the speaker isn't concerned with correctness, their brain will just go with "on" instead of "in".
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'On the news' is used when it is TV or radio news, 'in the news' would sound very odd to me then.

'Did you hear about the government's new plan to give all pensioners free Scuba-diving lessons?'

'No?! Where did you hear that?'

'Oh, I saw it on the news...'

The fact that pensioners will soon be swimming with the fishes (oops) is 'in the news' but I found
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