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Nov 14, 2019 · No, smart phone-wielding teenagers were not the first to use the phrase "OMG" as an abbreviation for "Oh my God." Try a British Royal Navy man — more than 100 years ago.
Nov 27, 2012 · IT’S 1917 and Winston Churchill receives a letter from Lord Fisher. It contains the earliest example of OMG | (Oh My God). Did the toffs invent text speak? WTF! (Winston Talks French!) Fisher...
The letter was written by John Arbuthnot Fisher, who, as first sea lord (the navy’s highest ranking officer), often quarreled with Churchill. In the 1917 missive, Fisher wrote, “I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis [table] — O.M.G. (Oh! My God!) — Shower it on the Admiralty!!”
Fisher, known as "Jacky", is credited by the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) with first using the abbreviation "OMG", when, in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917, he wrote: "I hear that a...
Nov 29, 2012 · While his naval career was over by the time he wrote his “dear Winston” the letter in 1917, one can only imagine he had become acclimated to speaking in coded messages and thus his ingenious...
Mar 25, 2011 · In 1917, Fisher wrote this sentence in a letter: "I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis--O.M.G.(Oh! My God!)--Shower it on the Admiralty!" He sent the letter to Winston...
Aug 7, 2012 · The popular phrase OMG, colloquial abbreviation for 'Oh My God' does not have its origins in modern-day chat rooms but was first used in 1917 in a letter to former British Prime Minister Winston...
