OED gets OMG? ROFL!

[thewayne]

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/

Comments

[silveradept]

Good to know they're still keeping up with the last decade in adding new stuff to the dictionary.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Hey, change is slow! Do you know how many scribes it takes to write a new OED?! LOTS!

[kylejcrb.livejournal.com]

So long as "plz," "thx," "u," and "r" don't get added, I'm okay with this.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

If there's one thing that is certain, it's that language is a constantly changing thing. Whether or not it's improving is another question. Could we converse with people in 1776? Pretty much. 500 years ago? Increasingly difficult. Flip it around to the future and we'd have similar problems.

I think it's unlikely that your examples will ever be incorporated, otherwise LOLcats will become valid grammatical reference material. ;-)