![]() ![]() Club, New York boosters of Democratic president Martin Van Buren's 1840 re-election bid, in allusion to his nickname Old Kinderhook, from his birth in the N.Y. Probably further popularized by use as an election slogan by the O.K. In the case of O.K., the abbreviation is of "oll korrect." for "no go," as if spelled "know go " N.C. 1838-9 for abbreviations of common phrases with deliberate, jocular misspellings (such as K.G. It got its origins in an urban slang fad during the mid 1800sġ839, only survivor of a slang fad in Boston and New York c. One of the most common words in the English language is "okay". Like language is supposed to be some pure unaltered thing. I love when people bitch about slang terms taking on new meanings. ![]()
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