OK has a birthday today: Here's how we started with humor, the most important word of the world

This Thursday, March 23, 2017, is the birthday of the 178 most important word in America and around the world. OK?

Yes, that word is OK. And she gave birth to the second page of the newspaper "Boston Morning Post" on March 23, 1839 that fell Saturday, citing British media, Syri.net.

In fact, OK it was so successful from the beginning that the birthday of this word will not be able to distinguish the most up a century later, when Professor University of Columbia, Allen Walker Read, published a series of articles on the OK-ein newspaper " American Speech ". Browsing almost every page of every newspaper published in Boston by the end of 1830, he proved that all OK-eit lead to 23 March.

At that time, moda humorous cuts enliven the pages of newspapers in Boston, some using the correct initials of humor to the names and activities, as ABRS for "Anti Bell Ringing Society" and OFM for our "first man" and some errors the intentional OK or O.W (OK). Thus, the context for a spelling error with the mood was extremely effective, quotes Syri.net.

The publisher of "Morning Post" liked his devise new - that was filllesë "o.k" - and used it several times that year. Meanwhile, other newspapers in Boston liked and started using special combination of K within the curved line O.

By the end of 1840, OK became so successful it prompted one writer to write and publish in the "Boston Times" a comic poem about her.

And the history of OK-it becomes more mysterious. Someone introduced the idea to use the approved documents. (It was President Andrew Jackson, the news was false.)