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The most understood word in the world was invented by a bunch of upper middle class school boys in Boston at the turn of the century (19th to 20th). There was a huge immigrant population there at that time and these boys liked to write like an immigrant might get it wrong.
When the teacher gave the class a quiz then tell the students in one row to swap their papers with the row next to them to be graded and mark the paper AC for all correct if there were no errors, these boys would write OK misspelling AC the way an immigrant might.
Anyway, the work OK (AKA: Okay) caught on and is spoken in every country. I've heard it in Thailand, Denmark, France, Korea, China and every other country I've been in.
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