The first 'OMG'?

• Position: Language - "Oh! My God!" history - Brief article

It shows up in so many texts, tweets, and IMs, you'd think the term was a by-product of the digital age. But "OMG" actually dates back to at least the early 20th century, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, which traces word origins and just added the acronym to its latest edition. The first known use is in a 1917 letter to Winston Churchill, the prime minister who famously led Britain during World War II. John Fisher, a British Navy admiral, wrote the letter to Churchill during World War I (1914-18), when Churchill was a...