It’s commonly heard spewing from the mouths of giggly Gen-Y’s, but the annoying acronym OMG was actually coined in 1917 by a British aristocrat.
Celebrated naval officer Lord Fisher used the three-letter abbreviation in a wartime letter to Winston Churchill.
The missive — which was penned in 1917 and published in Lord Fisher’s 1919 book Memories — sees Fisher complaining about negative press coverage of World War I.
“I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis — O.M.G (Oh! My! God!) — Shower it on the Admiralty!!,” Lord Fisher wrote.
OMG was originally used exclusively in written communication but has recently become used in spoken communication.
The acronym gained official recognition when it entered the Oxford Dictionary last year.
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