→ Where Did the Word “OK” Come From?

in #link6 years ago

So how exactly did "ok" become such a common word?

Young Boston intellectuals in the early 1800s used a humorous code of abbreviated phrases, like “KC,” or “knuff ced”; “KY,” “know yuse”; and “OW,” “oll wright.” And while most of them eventually fell out of fashion, one abbreviation persisted: “OK,” or “oll korrect.”

So basically "ok" was the LOL of its time. Interesting.

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