"Graf"

[Grant Barrett]

On Dec 3, 2005, at 17:35, Fred Shapiro wrote:

> The term "graf," I guess, is journalistese for "paragraph."  I
> don't see
> it in the OED or Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate.  Is this a fairly
> common word that has eluded the dictionaries?

Like Evan said, it's very common among journos. It's common in book
publishing too, so I think the reason it doesn't appear in the major
dictionaries is because it's jargon, not because it has escaped notice.

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org
http://www.doubletongued.org/