1908: gazette Mar 6, 2020

There are several quintessential titles found in newspaper names, including Times, Chronicle, and Gazette. However, for something so ubiquitous, 'gazette' doesn't really mean anything on its own. It actually comes from Venetian Italian "gazeta de la novità" referring to the cost of a newspaper being a ha'penny. In Italian, 'gazeta' was a Venetian coin approximating about a half-penny. This would be as if we referred to dime novels or penny dreadfuls as 'dimes' and 'pennies' respectively.

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