OK (/ ˌoʊˈkeɪ / ⓘ), with spelling variations including okay, okeh, O.K. and many others, is an English word (originating in American English) denoting approval, acceptance, agreement, assent, acknowledgment, or a sign of indifference. OK is frequently used as a …

'OK' is perhaps the most recognizable word in the world. It was also created as an in-joke between newspaper editors in the early 1800s, as a playful rendering of 'all correct' (oll korrect).

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2024年7月16日 · For many years, the origin of “OK,” one of the most common words in languages around the world, was disputed. Theories about the word’s beginnings and original meaning abounded, according to the...

2014年3月21日 · The OK Corral, Livery and Feed Stable in Tombstone, Arizona, became world-famous in 1881 after the legendary gunfight that included Doc Holliday and the three Earp brothers.

2013年4月11日 · The truth about OK, as Allan Metcalf, the author of OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word, puts it, is that it was "born as a lame joke perpetrated by a newspaper editor in 1839 ...

2022年9月16日 · Is there a difference between okay and OK? No. The meaning and usage are the same. The extremely versatile okay and OK can express agreement, change the topic, check for understanding, and verify that things are all right. Is OK just an truncated form of okay? Quite the opposite. It’s actually okay that derives from OK.

According to the OED, the term OK began its days as a humorous initialism “apparently derived from the initial letters of oll (or orl) korrect, jocular alteration of ‘all correct’ ”, when it was first seen almost 200 years ago in the United States, way back in 1839.

2021年6月22日 · OK or Okay is the most successful of all Americanisms. It has invaded hundreds of other languages and been adopted by them as a word. It was even one of the first words spoken from the surface of the moon. Despite the term’s success, however, for years no one was really sure where the word came from. The origin of OK became the Holy Grail of ...

2009年11月24日 · On March 23, 1839, the initials “O.K.” are first published in The Boston Morning Post. Meant as an abbreviation for “oll korrect,” a popular slang misspelling of “all correct” at the time, OK...