Did you see the tabloid in today's paper? The Prime Minister has resigned!

[Maggie]

Hi,guys

Could I say 'Did you see the tabloid in today's paper? The Prime Minister has resigned instead of Did you see the headline in today's paper? The Prime Minister has resigned'? So my keypoint is the two nouns,tabloid and headline.

Actually,this is a question that asks someone to fill in the gap. The answer is headline,but my answer is tabloid. So I wanna make sure if my answer is okay?

Please correct my mistakes if possible.

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[Pamela]

Hi Maggie,

These two words are by no means synonymous. It is 'headline that makes the sentence correct. The keyword is 'paper' that helps to choose the correct option.

Tabloid is a newspaper whose pages, usually five columns wide, are about one-half the size of a standard-sized newspaper page.

Headline-a heading in a newspaper for any written material, sometimes for an illustration, to indicate subject matter, set in larger type than that of the copy and containing one or more words and lines and often several banks.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=tabloid&r=66

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=headline&r=66

[Maggie]

Here,I am talking about that if I use tabloid, and maybe it's not weird. I meant maybe there is a tabloid,which is said about one event,'The Prime Minister has resigned'. Anybody makes sense what I mean? Each response is appreciated!

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[diverhank]

Like Pamela wrote, tabloid is not the right word for what you want to use. It should be "headline". It's just not natural English to use "tabloid" in this case.

[Alan]

Hi,

I don't think it's a question of whether it sounds natural, it's more to do with the use and meaning of the word. A tabloid or tabloid newspaper is half the size of what are called broadsheets - larger newspapers. In the UK it has now become common practice for most newspapers to adopt the 'tabloid' size to make it easier to read them. There used to be a certain snobbishness between the tabloids and the broadsheets, which now doesn't exist as far as size is concerned. Now those newspapers that concentrate more on pictures rather than the written word are referred to as 'red tops' because the name of the paper is in bright red letters.

Alan

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[diverhank]

Alan, I agree 100% with what you said. The reason for my answer was that I think the term tabloid has been used, at least online to represent "juicy headlines" in condensed format. I think that's what Maggie had in mind...There is a website that does this...so tabloid might mean headline to some people but it just wouldn't sound right...most of us would not understand it as headlines