• glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    8 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

    • LovstuhagenOPMEnglish
      1·
      8 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.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 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

        • LovstuhagenOPMEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

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