I'm sure everyone has text or messaged this:
O.M.G.
But have you ever wondered where, why or when it actually started? Well let me tell you this, it started much, much farther back in time then you could imagine, so it didn't start when some teenagers started texting with phones about boys or girls, like this:
'OMG, he's/she's so cool!'
Here's how it started, who started it, and when it started!
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first person to use
"OMG" was a 75-year-old British admiral, which is about as far as a carbon-based
life form can get from a teenage valley girl in a shop texting her friends about
how cool Justin Bieber is. His name was John Arbuthnot 'Jacky' Fisher, 1st Baron
Fisher of Kilverstone, and he coined the term
while writing his memoirs ... in 1917. Almost 100 years ago.
The exact phrase was:
"I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the
tapia -- O.M.G (Oh! My God!) -- Shower it on the Admiralty!" (his subtle
way of hinting that he hoped to be knighted). It's ironic, then, that one of the
most popular abbreviations in the world was created by someone who didn't quite
grasp the concept of using the acronyms to save time, since he immediately
followed the term with the phrase it was supposed to shorten.
-Just Grace
