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Originally Posted by RockIt
LOL. Then they've been misquoting! Listen to American TV closely.
I only know this bollocks 'cos my 16 year old stepdaughter knows all the American sayings and uses them tediously! 
My bad
Meaning
My mistake - I'm to blame.
Origin
This slang term originated in about 1970. At that time, i.e. pre the widespread use of the Internet, slang terms often circulated at street level for many years before being adopted by anyone who felt inclined to write them down. That's clearly not the case any longer of course and any word or phrase that is widely known is dateable quite precisely via website logs.
The first citation in print is C. Wielgus and A. Wolff's, 'Back-in-your-face Guide to Pick-up Basketball', 1986:
"My bad, an expression of contrition uttered after making a bad pass or missing an opponent." |
Maybe, but i think it may be my bad but even on tv it does sound very much like me bad.