Mar. 28th, 2011

thewayne: (Default)
The Oxford English Dictionary has been updated, and among the new entries are LOL and OMG. Doonesbury ran this the next day:

"I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis -- O.M.G. (Oh! My God!) -- Shower it on the Admiralty!"
— British Admiral John Arbuthnot Fisher in a 1917 letter to Winston Churchill -- the earliest known use of the acronym

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/03/omg-oxford-english-dictionary/

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