Friday March 25, 2011
OMG:
OED LOL
The latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary features a host of modern terms including 'cream crackered', 'wag' and 'tinfoil hat', along with internet initialisms such as LOL and OMG.
Yet LOL and OMG are far from being neologisms.
The studious lexicographers behind the latest tome have discovered that LOL and OMG predate the internet.
From Wired:
While you might consider LOL and OMG to be etymological artefacts from the mobile era or the internet age, the Oxford English Dictionary's typically meticulous word-sleuthing found examples of both acronyms from 1960 and 1917, respectively.
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