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The Grauniad is a nickname for the UK national newpaper, the Guardian, because of a now ill-founded reputation for typos. The name was given to it by the satirical magazine Private Eye. The Guardian newspaper earned its reputation for lots of misprints in the days of hot-metal printing when it was published in Manchester (it was originally called the Manchester Guardian), and the editions that appeared in London were very early editions brought down by train, before all the errors had been spotted.
Did you read that article in today's Grauniad?
grauniad by Kropotkin September 3, 2006
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The Guardian is a Manchester newspaper known for both its typos and dedication to Apple technology.
graunIad celebrates both their spelling mistakes and their tech news enthusiasm.

In order to meet their 5 a day apple quota you often get headlines such as "Will and Kate forget their iPad." and "Jamie Oliver's food is improved by the the iPad."
graunIad headline of the day "Japan discovers 'rare earth' minerals used for iPads"
graunIad by ArthursDaily July 6, 2011
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In the UK, there is a left-wing newspaper called The Guardian which is famed for it's abundance of typos and spelling mistakes which make it through the editing process. One time, they printed their own name as "The Grauniad" and since then it has stuck as an affectionate nickname.
John likes to read The Grauniad.
Grauniad by Paul April 26, 2004
The nickname for the UK Guardian. graunIad is so called for its subtle Apple advertising via the tech section.

With Steve Jobs having a reputation for fantastic fudge brownies it is rumoured that some staff have now passed a colossal 30 stone in weight.

The graunIad is such a collosal read that a cannon is now used to get print copy over the cupertino garden walls.
graunIad, graunIad, read all about cupertino.
graunIad by Microchops November 23, 2011
Nickname for a radical left-winged newspaper in the U.K called: 'The Guardian'. The nickname originates from the genius' behind the organisation spelling their domain name as www.grauniad.co.uk. (no joke), and also because of the notorious typos that went unedited and scattered throughout the paper.

The paper is considered by centrists and right of centre folk to be nothing but socialist propaganda in which any right of centre viewpoints are routinely censored by those in charge.
the bleeding heart liberal reads nothing but the Grauniad
Grauniad by Kool_Cat November 14, 2010
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