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Originally Posted by GA Russell
I am going to guess that the word is "wa" meaning water. Am I right?
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Nope. The word was invented by a group of upper middle class school boys in Boston at the turn of the century (1800 to 1900). In their class, the teacher would read a list of questions and the boys wrote the answers down.
Then they had to hand their answers to the student in the next row and the teacher would read the correct answers. If the student got it all correct, the boy grading the paper was supposed to write
AC, meaning All Correct on the top of the page but these boys liked to pretend they were immigrants and would write
OK on the top