Thread: OMG, LOL, FYI added to Oxford English Dictionary Online
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Old 03-27-2011, 02:04 PM   #54
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Originally Posted by Fbone View Post
The wiki for OK has an example of it's appearance going back to 1790.

It also says dictionaries and style guides cannot agree on uniform spelling either.

OK
O.K.
Okay
In the 20s and 30s it was spelled "okeh". There was an "Okeh" record label back then.
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