Reduction of OMG was first used in a letter to Churchill

OMG, short for the phrase "Oh my God!" (Eng. «Oh my God»), a native of the last century. In 1917, British General John Arbuthnot Fisher used it in a letter to Winston Churchill. He wrote: "I have heard discussed a new order of chivalry! OMG! Bestowed upon him the Admiralty! »

In 2011, the phrase was added to the Oxford English Dictionary. As a rule, OMG is used to express surprise, embarrassment, excitement and disgust. Recently, the acronym increasingly common on web pages, SMS and even reality TV.

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