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Anon is Bri’ish (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 day ago by MacNCheezus@lemmy.today to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's an odd one because it wasn't even a word in common usage until about 50 years ago, so I don't understand where the Americans got their attitude from since it appears to have been entirely self-generated.

[–] pohart@programming.dev 4 points 5 hours ago

From Wikipedia

It goes back to at least the year 1230, and was excluded from the OED from the 18th century until 1960. So it wasn't just Americans.