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[–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

Some time ago I looked it up, because I feared the same. There's actually medieval examples of the full phrase.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    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 https://english.stackexchange.com/a/508940

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months 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.

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