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A list of 190 words by tomsteele.

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Feel free to combine these in any way to create your own newspaper. Use lots of hyphens! (And yes, these are all used at real newspapers.)

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  • bilby Phew! For a moment there I was terrified of what eagle bacon might be. Jul 24, 2009

  • pdgray Glad to see Tiller & Toiler represented, from Larned, Kan. Another excellent Kansas newspaper name is The Wichita Eagle-Beacon, now just called The Wichita Eagle. ("Beacon" strikes me as an odd name, 500 miles from the sea.) Jul 23, 2009

  • jamie0s Around here in Northampton we have the names Chronicle, Echo, Citizen, Mercury, Herald, and Post in various ever-changing combinations. Which makes it sound like we have a vibrant newspaper scene, but they don't keep folding, merging, and reforming because they're big sellers. Mar 31, 2009

  • logophile I'm at Rutgers too (in Camden). Here it's the Gleaner.

    What an excellent list. Oct 23, 2007

  • reesetee I'm much more interested in The Gaucho myself. :-) Sep 13, 2007

  • colleen No, no, you do make a good point about competition. It's best to avoid fostering that, and I see how the stats would do so. Sep 13, 2007

  • jennarenn I'm so surprised! It must be about eight months old and I've never seen it either. What do these other people know that I don't??? Sep 13, 2007

  • trivet Me, too! Sep 12, 2007

  • john The Grackle? Oh, but reesetee, I do want to know. Sep 12, 2007

  • uselessness We have a local weekly paper in Albuquerque called the Alibi. It's a good "alternative" publication. Additionally, I agree that competition would be not-so-good for Wordie lists (apart from WordPlay games) and I regret suggesting it. There's already a degree of that with the "Most Citations" and "Wordiest Wordies" rankings, but there's never been a cutthroat edge to those, and no fights to be #1. Sep 12, 2007

  • oroboros Mine's called The Gaucho. Sep 12, 2007

  • reesetee My college newspaper was called The Grackle. You don't want to know why. Sep 12, 2007

  • reesetee Oh, I don't know, John. Traffic stats sound great at first, but if it makes Wordie competitive, I'd sooner not see them at all. Sep 12, 2007

  • john Gondolier, that's fantastic. My college newspaper was (and still is) called the Orient. "The Oldest Continuously Published College Weekly in the U.S." A pretty caveated claim :-) Sep 12, 2007

  • john Hm... maybe I should have kept my yap shut :-)

    I use Google Analytics for traffic stats, which is an amazing service, but it's external to the site. As far as I know there's no easy way for me to programatically check Analytics and incorporate those stats into the site. And because Analytics is so good, I don't even pay attention to the actual log files on the server -- in fact, being a bad sysadmin, every once in a while I just go in and delete them. So, no public stats for the foreseeable future.

    Practical considerations aside, I also worry that we'd get too competitive, or that people would feel badly if they weren't getting as much traffic as they'd like. While it might help overall traffic if everyone was out pimping their words, it might hurt esprit de corp and be a bad thing in the long run. Thoughts? Sep 12, 2007

  • colleen Seconded, I would love to see traffic stats. Mostly because I am an egomaniac. :D Sep 12, 2007

  • kad the rutgers university newspaper is the daily targum. Sep 10, 2007

  • uselessness Additionally, the newspaper in my hometown of Venice, Florida, is the Venice Gondolier. :-) Sep 10, 2007

  • uselessness Agreed! It's my first time seeing this. John, are you saying you have traffic stats for Wordie lists? Might be interesting to see a ranking or something... Sep 10, 2007

  • john What a fantastic list. And it's consistently one of the most-trafficked on Wordie. Sep 10, 2007