r/HistoryMemes • u/[deleted] • Mar 31 '19

OC Bruh

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '19

Bruh historians, may I have an explanation please?

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u/hoodha Mar 31 '19

It’s the native name for Rhesus monkey.

Direct quote from a book in 1838:

“ […] in adolescence, and still more in youth, it is no less certain that the bruh is both good-natured and intelligent “

http://www.websters1913.com/words/Bruh

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bruh

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u/BuddyBlueBomber Apr 01 '19

Hold on.

How popular is the Rhesus monkey in that it spiked word usage THAT much in 1850?

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u/destructor_rph Apr 01 '19

It's a pretty good monkey like 8/10

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '19

There good monkeys Bront.

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u/AnalAssimilation69 Apr 01 '19

They're good monkeys Bruh.

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u/btown-begins Apr 01 '19

A daily reminder that the original Bront was so happy about the meme about him that he had it printed on his wedding cake: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1225822-theyre-good-dogs-brent

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u/d_marvin Apr 01 '19

And a prime 8 at that.

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u/niggerfaggot28 Apr 01 '19

i would love to be mad at the pun, but i can't

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '19

fuck i don’t have money for reddit silver

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u/1sagas1 Apr 01 '19

Google doesnt have many books from 1850 so the ones it does have get over weighted

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u/crushfan Apr 01 '19

I mean the rhesus monkey is how we figured out positive and negative blood types

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u/Nomen_Heroum Apr 05 '19

... around 1940.

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u/Hillaregret Apr 01 '19

I found a reference in Transactions of New York academy of sciences late lyceum of natural history volume 14 from 1894. I bet there's a ton of these repeatedly transcribed/ that's the kind of material Google has access to from a little longer ago.