'OMG' Dates Back to Almost 100 Years Ago: Real or Hoax?
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2012/08/08 23:00:00
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OMG... you guys won't believe this! So, you know the abbreviation "OMG," short for the phrase "Oh My God"? Well, it was evidently used as early as 1917, in some correspondence from John Arbuthnot Fisher to Winston Churchill. Do you believe it? Or do you think this news is a little too good to be true?
THEMARYSUE.COM reports:
THEMARYSUE.COM reports:
Younger generations these days are saddled with a lot of responsibilities they're not quite prepared for: Coming of age in a time of economic turmoil, figuring out how to get Earth to let us keep living on it without drowning in its rising oceans, dealing with the ever-looming threat that Siri will finally follow through with her plan and enslave us all.
Less grave, but nonetheless usually put on the youths of the world, is the popularization of text-speak. You know the type: LOL, LMFAO, ROFL, OMG, Totes. Well, it turns out there's at least one of those abominations to the English language that no one in any recent generation has to take the blame for: OMG is at almost a hundred years old.
Read More: http://www.themarysue.com/omg-is-old/
Top Opinion
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Marianne™ 2012/08/08 23:01:31
:P
Talk about a chess game using live pieces. :P
Coventry (and Plymouth) were firebombed in retaliation for Dresden, and Churchill knew it was coming because we had intercepted the communiques. He was in a real dilemma; evacuate the cities and let the Germans know that we had cracked the Enigma code (our biggest advantage) or let them be bombed....
This is no a matter of public record as the papers were declassified some time after his death.
http://www.factmonster.com/ip...
But maintaining an empire sometimes requires fighting on multiple fronts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This is more inline with what was taught on this side of The Pond re: War of 1812- http://www.factmonster.com/ip...
What I learned was that the US had signed an agreement not to sell weapons to the French and when the UK sank or took this warship on it's way to France it was argued that it was not a weapon as it was not being supplied with any cannon.
Diplomacy failed and (thinking that GB had enough on their hands with their war in Europe) the US declared war.
GB reacted more swiftly than the US had thought and were able to deploy 5 armies - 3 to Canada, one to New Orleans and one to attack Washington.
The forces in Canada defeated the US forces there, and Washington was captured - whereupon the US sued for peace. The news took too long to reach the army tasked to take New Orleans (and therefore control the Mississippi).
This engagement was a b*lls up from the very beginning for us Brits as the US forces were reinforced by a militia of people (smugglers and pirates) who knew the swamps like the back of their hands, and the majority of the British Forces died as they tried to cross. Either by drowning in mud or by guerrilla action.