"after the jump"

[Joel S. Berson]

FWIW, this evening I heard Wolf Blitzer say "back after the break"
(for a commercial).  Admittedly, that's neither a paper nor an
electronic newspaper, with pages.

Joel

At 3/15/2011 02:09 PM, Ann Burlingham wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>I used to do newspaper layout, and that's the term I'm familiar with.
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