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The Origins of "OK"

So if OK stands for “all correct,” wouldn’t it be “AC”? Not exactly, says linguist Erin McKean, who points out that the word was intentionally misspelled. Much like the way people on the Internet shorten or abbreviate words when typing, OK was misspelled on purpose. “For instance, a lot of kids online spell “cool,” “k-e-w-l,”

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