OMG! ‘OMG’ is nearly 100 years old

We interrupt your slackjawed midday Internet browsing session to bring you 95-year-old news of terrific import: It appears the earliest known usage of the acronym “OMG” was in a letter from a Royal Navy admiral to the UK’s minister of munitions, Winston Churchill. Behold this 1917 correspondence from John Arbuthnot Fisher unearthed by the splendid blog Letters of Note: Read full article >>