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Posted: 2012-08-06T17:30:30Z | Updated: 2017-12-07T03:00:33Z First Known Use Of OMG In Letter To Winston Churchill (PHOTO) | HuffPost

First Known Use Of OMG In Letter To Winston Churchill (PHOTO)

OMG! The First Time Someone Used The Phrase 'OMG'!
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From the looks of this, Lord Fisher may have been the world's first teenage girl. Did he ever meet a sentence he couldn't end in an exclamation point?

In addition to representing the first-known use of the phrase "O.M.G.", this 1917 letter from Lord Fisher to Winston Churchill has given us a new favorite catch phrase: Shower it on the Admirality!! (We think it means go on with your bad self.)

Via Letters Of Note by way of BuzzFeed

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