... the expression "OMG".
QuoteAdmiral Fisher developed the dreadnought battleship, the battlecruiser, QF guns, and steam turbines but of the many innovations he championed, only the acronym 'OMG' is widely used in the same form today.
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/11/the-first-use-of-omg-was-in-a-1917-letter-to-winston-churchill/
:lol:
That's so sad! :(
Neal will be crushed. At least he didn't invent OMFG.
Half of that isn't even accurate. QF naval guns were developed by Elswick and the turbine warship was Parsons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvtWaq_amv8
It's nothing. I heard Graf von Moltke invented "LOL".
Big deal, Yamamoto invented "ROR" after Pearl.
Scott of Antartica invented BRB
Quote from: Neil on November 28, 2012, 12:52:25 AM
Half of that isn't even accurate. QF naval guns were developed by Elswick and the turbine warship was Parsons.
Doesn't say that he invented any of them. It says that he championed them.
There was an article a few months ago that stated that Churchill was the first to use the OMG shorthand. So someone's wrong...
Quote from: PJL on November 28, 2012, 01:06:56 PM
There was an article a few months ago that stated that Churchill was the first to use the OMG shorthand. So someone's wrong...
Considering Churchill was half in the bag by 9pm, he probably spelled it MGO anyway.
Quote from: PJL on November 28, 2012, 01:06:56 PM
There was an article a few months ago that stated that Churchill was the first to use the OMG shorthand. So someone's wrong...
Oxford (http://www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/293068) also gives it to Fisher.