SilverTrain
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Thanks Cal, not so baffled that I didn't know what it meant. Anyway, I googled (derivation of my bad) it and I was surprised to find that Shakespeare used the same term in a sonnet although the source admits that it is more of a coincidence than a direct derivation of modern usage:
Sonnet 112:
Your love and pity doth the impression fillAlso interested to find that it was introduced to popular culture during the 1990's from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Scooby Doo TV series...makes sense, I can just hear that great dane "sawwwy ...my bad"
Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?
Interesting.
But I have to say, "My bad" was in extensive use on pick-up basketball courts in the USA well before the 1990's. E.g.:
A brilliant backdoor feed from the top of the key to someone cutting to the hoop, and the cutter bobbles and drops the ball out of bounds. Running back down the court to play "D", the cutter informs the passer, "My bad" (often expressed simultaneously with the speaker's hand-emphatically-patting-his-own-chest gesture).
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