Is The Guardian an actual newspaper?

[MsAmerica]

Could someone tell me, is The Guardian an actual physical paper newspaper, or is it only an online website?

I thought this might be a good place to ask.

Yes it's an actual paper.

It's an actual paper but it does gradually get thinner. Also the observer on a Sunday.

Good question, I have been wondering if the Guardian is a newspaper for a long time myself.

It does have a physical paper as well as being online.

It has been getting thinner the last few years - not in your hands. ( my post above was a bit weird!)

OP here's a pic and everything...

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian

Is this a serious question?

It's been an actual newspaper since 1821!

It was originally the Manchester Guardian, and in the online archive you can read as it reports on the Chartists in the 1840s, the cotton famines of the 1860s, the casualties of the First World War and the Manchester fundraising to support them...

It's an amazing archive.

History of the Guardian

Possibly OP isn't from the UK so would only know the online version of the Graun

It's a lovely newspaper that I had delivered for decades until the newsagent closed about a year ago. Since then I've had to get used to reading it and doing the crossword on-line.

Thanks so much. Just fact-checking so I don't make a mistake.

Are you mistaking it for the Independent, which was a physical newspaper, but which is now online only?

Out of interest, why do people call it the Graun or Grauniad? Is it just a nickname or does it have meaning? I see this a lot in CIF comments and have often wondered.

Grauniad The Guardian was historically notorious for its spelling and other mistakes.

'Out of interest, why do people call it the Graun or Grauniad?'

Good question. Is it something to do with readers groaning when they read its articles? Interested to know why.

OP are you British?

Private Eye started the 'Grauniad' business in the 70/80s I believe as a piss take over the shocking spelling mistakes littering its then admirable pages.

Even my socialist dad doesn't bother these days, fed up with its well-spelled,elitist, metrocentric, narrow and insultingly obvious SJW agenda and ghastly virtue signalling Take a Break type writing.

Yes, the Grauniad is what Private Eye called it back in the day, like Pretty said.

Nowadays, the writers are less of the Dave Spart school and more like The Eye's Controversial New Columnist (a baby).

I still read it