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London Bloggers [Comic Blogs][Other Blogs] | 28 October 2025
[words] The strange and hilarious history of the word “OK” … ‘Journalist Charles Gordon Greene was responsible for the first confirmed use of the word OK in the March 23, 1839 issue of the Boston Morning Post.It was found in a humorous article about their rival paper, the Providence Journal.There are a few theories about the origins of OK, and some of them make perfect sense…’
18 August 2025
[words] The Bluesky Dictionary … Can Bluesky use every word in the English language? ‘Words We Haven’t Seen: fonticuli’
27 March 2014
[ipsum] Translating Lorem Ipsum … What does the filler text “lorem ipsum” mean? … ‘The text itself has been designed not to communicate, to have the look of text but no meaning – but meaning bubbles up through it nonetheless. The 16th-century printer who came up with it got there by mangling Cicero’s ‘De finibus bonorum et malorum’, an exposition of Stoicism, Epicureanism and the Platonism of Antiochus of Ascalon. Though most of the metaphysical subtlety has been wrung out, sense hasn’t completely: the text is haunted, as Derrida might have put it, by the piece of writing it once was.’ [via As Above]
17 December 2013
[words] OED birthday word generator: which words originated in your birth year? … ‘1970. Your OED birthday word is: laugh-out-loud, adj. Meaning: Likely to cause one to laugh out loud; hilarious.’
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