Well, actually, I may have been wrong about it being the Brits. It actually appears to just be the way the Economist refers to itself, independent of its being a British publication:
https://www.economist.com/the-econom...lf-a-newspaper
My bad...
Regarding the "briefs" - all I can say is, again, that's what the Economist itself referred to them as. I would sort of assume (although I just had to take a "my bad" for assuming
) that this might be short for "briefing"? Or maybe just refers to the fact that they are not very many pages - i.e. brief?
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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
I'll try to remember that in future posts that I read, and that I publish, of British "newspapers."
So, do the Brits use the word "magazine?" If so, what do they mean by it?
"Briefs" is not a familiar word to us Yanks, either, unless you're talking about an article of men's clothing. If I had to say, I would say that they are what American scholars refer to as "monographs."
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