I think the internet usage of it in various modern contexts with erroneously 'olde' English may have come from there though.
LATIN PEOPLE. LATIN!
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Jeru War and Piss,
Sun 25 Jan 2009, 17:04,
archived)
its been around b3ta/something awful for years
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connor,
Sun 25 Jan 2009, 17:08,
archived)