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'.
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Okay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Okay , OK , Oh Kay or O.K. is a colloquial English word denoting approval, assent, or acknowledgment that has been a loanword from English for many other languages. As an adjective it means 'ad...
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Cross cultural linguistic propagation ... Pushmataha supposedly answered with a Choctaw word which meant that things were all right. Jackson liked the word and began using it himself. The word was OK.
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What does "OK" stand for?; StraightDope ^ | 5/24/04 | Cecil Adams ; ... Eric Partridge, in Origins (1983), says OK derives from the OK Club, which supported Martin "Old Kinderhook" Van Buren in 1840. That isn't wrong, but it's only half the story.
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There's no question the word OK is universal -- it's used from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe and everywhere in between. But how did OK come to be? NPR's Neva Grant sifts through the various answers for Morning Edition's Present at the Creation series. ... Others say OK is short for Aux Cayes, a Haitian port that American...
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Some time around 1832, Seba Smith was accused of libel in claiming that Andrew Jackson endorsed a pronouncement written by his literary secretary, Amos Kendell, with OK Amos. The details are not very clear, but it is possible that what was really written was OR, meaning "Order Recorded".
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The origin of the ubiquitous psuedo-word "OK" or "okay" has proven to be one of the biggest war grounds in etymology. It is not specifically of English origin, being used all over the world in many different languages.
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