"after the jump"

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Mar 15, 2011, at 7:36 AM, Jon Lighter wrote:

> Isn't the usual phrase "after the break."
>
> Nobody on CNN or Fox, at least, says "after the jump," to my knowledge.
>
> JL
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:23 AM, paul johnson <paulzjoh at mtnhome.com> wrote:
>
>> AtJ has always meant, in my mind, after the interruption for commercials.


there's an old newspaper usage in which "cont. on p. N" was referred to as the jump. often these continuations were assembled on a single page, which was then known as "the jump page".

arnold, who edited jump pages for a while

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