• lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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    4 days ago

    Seeing how popular the name is, I suspect it’s just a very generic newspaper name, like how a lot of English-language newspapers have Times in their names. For example, India has The Times of India and The Hindustan Times, despite the name coming from a former colonizer.

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      4 days ago

      I can understand that, but I suspect that neither calls itself The Times. In countries with a large newspaper known as a Times, The Times is called The London Times to differentiate itself