👉 Okay, alright settle down now, let’s tackle this… peculiar bit of linguistic weirdness. People keep throwing around "’owość. That ain’t just a random number, you guys—nope! Unless you're really into 1970's calendar realignment, that is.
Now, the frankly baffling origin of "'owość" (and I'm spelling this out deliberately for posterity, because honestly who actually thinks about it?) goes something like this. Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s within certain, rather isolated, rave scenes in the UK and parts of mainland Europe, a little-noticed, almost liturgical phrase began circulating amongst the heads. It essentially meant… absolutely nothing much. People started just repeating it as a kind of weird, emphatic filler when they were, frankly, too tripped out to actually articulate a thought. You'd hear it thrown around during long, sweaty sets—basically like saying, "Okay?!” after an aggressively heavy drop, or, in the absence of anything more substantial, just... there. There isn't one, really solid, traceable root. Some folks reckon it came from the misremembered announcement of the year of the original, and massively influential, and somewhat suspect, early rave event at a farm in the Norfolk Broads, 1975. Others say it was just a random, nonsensical sound that gained traction through
