NEWS的含义是什么

新闻一词在英语中成为News，出自十八世纪，是代表东西南北（的事）的意思。
君不见，North、East、West、South的首字母凑到一起，就成了News！

不过，这种说法好像并不正确。

查阅金山词霸2005中的《美国传统词典（双解）》，News的语源是：

Middle English newes [new things, tidings] [pl. of] newe [new thing, new] * see new 中古英语 newes [新事情，新潮] [] newe的复数 [新事情，新的] *参见 new
其注释为：

If you take the first letters of the directions North, East, West, and South, it is true that you have the letters of the word news, but it is not true that you have the etymology of news, contrary to what has often been thought. The history of the word is much less clever than this and not at all unexpected. News is simply the plural of the noun new, which we use, for example, in the adage “Out with the old, in with the new.” The first recorded user of this plural to mean “tidings” may have been James I of Scotland; a work possibly written by him around 1437 contains the words “Awak . . . I bring The [thee] newis [news] glad.” It is pleasant to see that the first n