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'OMG' was first used 100 years ago in a letter to Churchill!

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Press Trust of India London

It has emerged that the British admiral John Arbuthnot Fisher first penned the acronym in a letter to Churchill as far back as 1917, the Daily Mail reported.

Lord 'Jacky' Fisher, as he was known, used it in a letter to Churchill before he became Prime Minister. The letter mentioned "utterly upsetting" World War I newspaper headlines.

He wrote: "I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis

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First Published: Aug 07 2012 | 5:36 PM IST

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