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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by Moose423956 View Post
    Don't you have anything important to do, like earning some more money?
    On a sunday?

    I've heard a couple of explanations, one being that it was a Red Indian word like "hokay" signifying assent and another that some quartermaster in the American Civil War would write "O K" short for "Orl Korrect" on consignments he had confirmed were, um, OK.

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  • Moose423956
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    Don't you have anything important to do, like earning some more money?

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  • TimberWolf
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    Ok

    I was just looking up the etymology of the word 'OK' (or O.K., okay, or okily dokily) and what's interesting is how widely it is used and how well it is understood internationally, especially given that it appears to be quite a new word. It may be the most internationally understood word. And yet no one knows where it comes from or whether it is a word or an abbreviation

    N.B. CUK made the 'k' lower case in the title, not me. Yet another variant. Okey?
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