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!