There is a good writeup on the English Language stack exchange and on Wikipedia all of whose early sources are for the normal version or things like it
If you have a better citation, please share, but since they only find the Tumblr version from the 1990s I’m saying it’s bollocks.
No, but to me it’s a stereotype of Tumblr users that they go fucking nuts for any of that kind of “counter-cultural secret knowledge” stuff even if it’s straight up lies.
So I’m not saying “Tumblr version” to mean they invented it but to mean they love it and (helped) popularise it.
wieson@feddit.org 1 month ago
Some time ago I looked it up, because I feared the same. There’s actually medieval examples of the full phrase.
FishFace@piefed.social 1 month ago
There is a good writeup on the English Language stack exchange and on Wikipedia all of whose early sources are for the normal version or things like it
If you have a better citation, please share, but since they only find the Tumblr version from the 1990s I’m saying it’s bollocks.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
tumblr existed in the 90s?
FishFace@piefed.social 1 month ago
No, but to me it’s a stereotype of Tumblr users that they go fucking nuts for any of that kind of “counter-cultural secret knowledge” stuff even if it’s straight up lies.
So I’m not saying “Tumblr version” to mean they invented it but to mean they love it and (helped) popularise it.