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bonus_satis | What does "O.K." stand for? |
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In the summer of 1838 newspaper columnists in Boston thought nothing funnier than to reduce a phrase to its initials (with an explanation in parentheses). Allen Walker Read, the premier historian of our most famous expression, found this example in the Boston Morning Post of June 12, 1838: "We understand that J. Eliot Brown, Esq., Secretary of the Boston Young Men's Society for Meliorating the Condition of the Indians, F.A.H. (fell at Hoboken, N.J.) on Saturday last at 4 o'clock, p.m. in a duel W.O.O.O.F.C. (with one of our first citizens.) What measures will be taken by the Society in consequence of this heart rending event, R.T.B.S. (remains to be seen)."
To add to the humor, columnists sometimes misspelled the abbreviations. One 1838 example was O.W., meaning "all right," with blatant misspellings of both initial letters. That set the stage for an even more outrageous misspelling in March 1839: O.K., translated as "all correct." The joke was that neither O nor K was correct.
O.K. might have died out with O.W., R.T.B.S., and the rest of the laughable abbreviations if "Old Kinderhook," President Martin Van Buren (born in Kinderhook, New York), hadn't running for reelection in 1840. "O.K. clubs" supporting him were established throughout the country. Old Kinderhook lost, but O.K. won a permanent place in American English. |
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bonshui
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It's not short for "okay" - okay is 'long' for OK.
It sounds ridiculous but O.K. is an abbreviation of "orl korrct" - a humourous (sidesplitting, I'm sure) spelling of "all correct" |
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ProZack
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There have been numerous attempts to explain the emergence of this curious colloquial expression, which seems to have swept into popular use in the US during the mid-19th century. Most of them are undoubtedly pure speculation. It does not seem at all likely, from the linguistic and historical evidence, that it derives from the Scots expression 'och aye', the Greek ola kala ('it is good'), the Choctaw Indian oke or okeh ('it is so'), the French aux Cayes ('from Cayes', a port in Haiti with a reputation for good rum) or au quai ('to the quay', as supposedly used by French-speaking dockers), or the initials of a railway freight agent called Obediah Kelly who is said to have written them on lading documents he had checked.
The oldest written references to 'OK' result from its adoption as a slogan by the Democratic party during the American Presidential election of 1840. Their candidate, President Martin Van Buren, was nicknamed 'Old Kinderhook' (after his birthplace in New York State), and his supporters formed the 'OK Club'.
This undoubtedly helped to popularize the term (though it did not get President Van Buren re-elected!). During the late 1830s there had been a brief but widespread craze in the US for humorous misspellings, and the form orl korrekt which was among them could explain the initials 'OK'. Such a theory has been supported by more than one distinguished American scholar, and is given in many dictionaries, including Oxford dictionaries. |
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idontkno
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ok |
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jlnatc
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the word okay or Oklahoma |
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beach_chik2006
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it's short 4 okay |
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rahul_hyd
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It stands for "oll korrect." They're the result of a fad for comical abbreviations that flourished in the late 1830s and 1840s. |
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gemlover
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It means: All correct. It was an abbreviation that first appeared in Boston newspapers in 1839.
Below is an interesting account of it's beginnings. The whole link will not copy over, so you'll have to cut and paste it if you want to read the history of O.K.
http://www.pbs.org/speak/words/
trackthatword/ttw/?i=1033+class= |
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darkwind_faery
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It was used in world war II when battles were reported they used OK meaning 0 killed people... |
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zen
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"There are dozens of other interpretations, all equally knuckleheaded. Pay them no mind. If Professor Read says OK = oll korrect, that's good enough for me."
--CECIL ADAMS |
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wuzzie
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"OK (also okay) originated in America, probably as an abbreviation for orl (or oll) korrect, a humorous form of 'all correct'; it became well known in the American presidential election of 1840, when used as a slogan for Martin Van Buren, who was nicknamed Old Kinderhook. There are many other suggestions about the expression's origin, none of them supported by good evidence."
Quoted directly from dictionary ;) |
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pink
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it stands for okay ..............duhhhh |
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Shawn1999J
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ok |
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corbin909
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OKAY lol.....duh |
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Cynthia
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Okay... |
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J_shizzle
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I don't believe that it actually stands for anything, I think that it started out as a word "okay" and has been changed over the years. |
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alyssa
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its usually/ almost all he time short for okay, but sometimes people use it as short for oklahoma or some organization/ club they might be in that has thoose initials.
ok? |
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dogsoup134
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it stands for okay |
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diva girl
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okay - now why would u waste 2 points on such a silly question |
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