Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

grauniad

/ˈɡɹɔːniæd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English

Syllables: grau-ni-ad
IPA: /ˈɡɹɔːniæd/

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The Guardian, a British daily national newspaper.

British usage; Humorous

Example Sentences

"Good old Grauniad."
"Stop along the road for papers; scan headlines, make sure that no late-breaking story displaced the Vanguard piece and that it's intact (ninety-five percent – a satisfyingly high score), check out Doonesbury in the Grauniad, then away."
"Katherine Viner wants to appoints a "1 per cent correspondent" to hound the filthy rich. As befits a possible Grauniad editrix, the NUJ misspelt her name."
"His appointment marked the start of a daily corrections and clarifications column, a first for a UK newspaper, which has mined a rich seam of typos and other slips for which “the Grauniad” is fondly known."

Etymology

Deliberate misspelling of Guardian, coined by the UK satirical magazine Private Eye, implying that the Guardian newspaper was prone to typographical errors.

Usage

British usage
Humorous

Derived Forms

Graun

Questions

How do you pronounce grauniad?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɡɹɔːniæd/.
What does grauniad mean?: The Guardian, a British daily national newspaper.
Where does grauniad come from?: Deliberate misspelling of Guardian, coined by the UK satirical magazine Private Eye, implying that the Guardian newspaper was prone to typographical errors.

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