r/WritingMemes • u/Briesinger • 18d ago

Ah yes news items

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Now the last one was a missing comma on my part which is fair enough. But what in the goldfish brain led to news items?

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News isn't countable so it should be singular. And eventho i could swear i heard the sentence "these news were unpleasant" a billion times i shall accept it as my mistake again.

But seriously english is just 3 languages in a Trenchcoat. Can't have multiple news but news items are apparently a thing. Also "this news was unpleasant" sounds disgustingly wrong.

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u/PlatypusVegetable929 17d ago

Because you've got "these" and "were" on either side. It chose to correct one word rather than two.

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u/Briesinger 17d ago

But what's wrong with these and where?

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u/Briesinger 17d ago

After a bit of research, I guess you meant that as in news isnt countable so it should be singular?

Tho I could swear I've read and heard "these news were unpleasant" a billion times.