| |
| | Topical Words: Tabloid |
 | | The first recorded use of tabloid for this style of journalism is from the very beginning of the twentieth century, from the Westminster Gazette of 1 January 1901. |
 | | In its defence, that firm pointed out that tabloid was by then widely used, mentioning recent issues of Punch, Tatler, Nature, and the Daily Mirror (another tabloid, founded that year), which had employed phrases such as “opera in tabloid”, “tabloid melodrama”, “knowledge in tabloid form”, “tabloid missives” and “modern art in tabloid”. |
 | | Burroughs Wellcome, it was argued, had thereby lost all rights to tabloid and that the action was “an attempt on the part of the plaintiff to prevent the proper development of the English language”;. |
| www.worldwidewords.org /topicalwords/tw-tab1.htm (567 words) |
|