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Where does the word ‘ok’ come from?

  • March 8, 2020
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Where does the word ‘ok’ come from?

Why is everything ‘ok’? What does ‘ok’ mean?

In the 1830s people found it amusing to spell expressions incorrectly. A common one was ‘all correct’ which became ‘orl korrekt’ and abbreviated to OK.

The word was popularised when Martin Van Buren, known as Old Kinderhook, was campaigning for re-election and his fans were known as the OK Club.

https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/ok

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