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  2. Oh My God - Wikipedia

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    a common phrase frequently abbreviated as "OMG", often used in SMS messages and Internet communication, and sometimes euphemised as "Oh my Goodness" or "Oh my Gosh". The first attested use of the abbreviation O.M.G. was in a letter from John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher to Winston Churchill in 1917.

  3. History of the alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Many Greek letters are similar to Phoenician, except the letter direction is reversed or changed, which can be the result of historical changes from right-to-left writing to boustrophedon, then to left-to-right writing. Global distribution of the Cyrillic alphabet. The dark green areas shows the countries where this alphabet is the sole main ...

  4. OMG - Wikipedia

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    Oh my God! (sometimes also Oh my Goodness! or Oh my Gosh!) is a common abbreviation meaning shock or surprise, often used in SMS messages and Internet communications; OMG is the IATA code for Omega Airport, Omega, Namibia

  5. List of Greek and Latin roots in English/O - Wikipedia

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    Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples ob-, o-, oc-, of-, og-, op-, os-[1]against: Latin: ob: obduracy, obdurate, obduration ...

  6. History of the Latin script - Wikipedia

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    In the Romance languages, the minuscule form of V was a rounded u; from this was derived a rounded capital U for the vowel in the 16th century, while a new, pointed minuscule v was derived from V for the consonant. In the case of I, a word-final swash form, j, came to be used for the consonant, with the un-swashed form restricted to vowel use ...

  7. 20 iconic slang words from Black Twitter that shaped pop culture

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    The word "pressed" connotes a certain weight put on someone. It could mean being upset or stressed to the point that something lives in your mind "rent-free," as Black Twitter might say. Or, in ...

  8. Brahmic scripts - Wikipedia

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    Each vowel has two forms, an independent form when not attached to a consonant, and a dependent form, when attached to a consonant. Depending on the script, the dependent forms can be either placed to the left of, to the right of, above, below, or on both the left and the right sides of the base consonant.

  9. Do you speak Gen-Alpha? Test your ‘skibidi’ knowledge with ...

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    Oxford University, which named ‘rizz’ as its word of the year in 2023, defines the term as “someone’s ability to attract or seduce another person,” and nodded to a common assumption that ...