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Old 08-11-12, 02:49 PM   #1
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Default Adm. Jackie Fisher, inventor of the OMG

...along with a little ship called the Dreadnought

Apparently the earliest documented use of one of today's most popular internet acronyms has been found in one of his letters to Churchill:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/08...first-omg.html

...to which Churchill replied "LOL"

I guess the internet hasn't changed our language that much, huh
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