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Origin disputed. Wikipedia listsmany possible etymologies, of which the most widely accepted is that it is an abbreviation ofoll/orl korrect, a comical spelling ofall correct, which first appeared in print inThe Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, as part of a fad for similar fanciful abbreviations in the United States during the late 1830s. The expression became popular through its use in the presidential campaign of Martin Van Buren in 1840, who was nicknamedOld Kinderhook, and then slowly acquired other meanings.[1]
TheChoctaw wordoke,okeh(“it is so”), common in Choctaw translations of the Bible, could also explainOK's variety of affirmative definitions. Additionally,okeh was the most common etymology ofokay in dictionaries until the 1960s, and linguistically predates Boston'sO.K.. However, this theory suffers from the fact that the Choctaw language was relatively obscure and generally spoken (sometimes in apidgin form) mainly with African-American slaves.
OK (third-person singular simple presentOKsorOK's,present participleOKingorOK'ing,simple past and past participleOKedorOK'dorOK'ed)
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Possibly a shortening ofChinese卡拉OK.(Canthis(+) etymology besourced?)
OK (plural not attested)
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OK f (pluralOK's,nodiminutive)
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FromDutchoperatiekamer ofoperatie(“surgery”) +kamer(“room”).
OK (pluralOK-OK)
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishOK.
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OKorOK• (ōkēorokkē) -na (adnominalOKな(ōkēna),adverbialOKに(ōkēni))
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| Revised Romanization? | okei |
| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | okei |
| McCune–Reischauer? | ok'ei |
| Yale Romanization? | o.kheyi |
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