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From: Kevin & Cheryl Caldwell <kevin.caldwell1963 at verizon.net>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.12.01 (02) [E]

Rag paper is actually very high quality, not low quality.  See
http://painting.about.com/od/artglossaryr/g/defragpaper.htm .

I suspect "rag" as a disparaging term for a newspaper refers to the quality
of the writing, not the paper it's printed on.

Some American schools whose mascot is the tiger call their school newspaper
"Tiger Rag", which is also the name of a well-known ragtime song.

Kevin Caldwell

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From: Brooks, Mark <mark.brooks at twc.state.tx.us>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.12.01 (02) [E]

Heather asked:  "How do any of you think the English epression 'local rag'
meaning 'local newspaper' might have got its name?"

I used to work in a copy/printing company.  When we talked about high
quality paper, we would call it by the percent of "rag" it contained.  Rag
in this case meant cotton.  So when we printed Doctoral Dissertations we
always put them on 100% rag.  You could also find 50% rag and so on.
However, in our case it meant a higher quality of paper than the standard
copy paper.

Regards,

Mark Brooks

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