O.K.
Ok.
Okay.
Ever found yourself saying any of the above? (Like, all day today? Or at least some time this week?)
It's a fad.
Like, a really old one, ok? Apparently, in New York and Boston in the 1840's, people liked to be weird and spell things wrong. (This is ringing a bell.) It became slang to spell words wrong and then use their abbreviations. For example: no go might become know go and be abbreviated KG. So what began OK? Somebody came up with all correct as Oll Korrect and shortened it to OK.
Unlike the other abbreviations that were fads waaaaaay back then, OK survived and is still OK today.
Coolio?
Coolio. Muchly.
Happy weekending!
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Wow, that's actually really cool! I never really thought about where OK/okay came from, so thanks for sharing. (:
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