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Originally Posted by tompe
How can O.K. be OK? The guide I read explicitly said O.K. is wrong since it is not an abbreviation of two word.
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Actually it might be. All though the history of the work is not certain, one contender is that it is short for "all correct" which was spelled as "Oll Korrect" or even "Ole Kurreck" by many people in the mid-1800's who were not exactly as literate as general population is today.
Whether or not that history is correct is unknown. There are several other contenders such as a political campaign (OK was initials of the guy running) and Choctaw (Native American tribe) word (okeh). So in short, no one knows
So that is why O.K. can be okay
