Courant
Courant was a common word for "newspaper" in the
18th century, apparently spreading from the
Netherlands, where it is still widely used, and then to
England and
America.
Benjamin Franklin's brother James began a
New England Courant in Boston.
The Hartford Courant, founded in
1764, is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States.
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