• glimse@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    7 months ago

    I know it’s just a meme but where did that graph come from? The only similar site I could find was Google N-Gram and it shows a small bump around 1850 (a fraction of current use)

    While looking into it I also discovered the “use” of bruh it notes is from English-French pronunciation guides. Kinda interesting

    • LovstuhagenOPM
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      7 months ago

      Thanks for checking it

      I sort of wanted to do so myself but I am not super familiar with the process and just enjoyed the meme.

      Sadly it looks like a false meme but the lol for me was real, haha. But the fact that a small bump exists at all is amazing.

      Was it being used as bro?

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        7 months ago

        From what I saw it was used to phonetically write French words. Like “Zebra: ZEE - bruh” (can’t remember any of the French words). It was/is apparently a surname.

        I wasn’t trying to discredit it or anything, I was just wondering what other “words over time” sites there were

        • LovstuhagenOPM
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          7 months ago

          Yeah I am not sure but thank you for the extra info!