What does OK actually mean?
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What i all know about it that its a short form for 2 words and the meaning of them are alright.:kewl:

Originally posted by amo0or
What i all know about it that its a short form for 2 words and the meaning of them are alright.:kewl:

thanx , anyone knows what amoor talkin about ?! wanna explain more !

Originally posted by Navigator
thanx , anyone knows what amoor talkin about ?! wanna explain more !

I dont think that u need more explaination coz its very clear unless....anyways

Again..The word OK is a short form for two wrods, one word starts with ( O ) and the second word starts with ( K ), so when u put them together it become OK...
And as i said that i dont know what exactly the 2 words are.

Understood??:tiered:

amoor: i know all that and understood it !!

but i am asking if someone else knows those two words ur talking about !!

It's from a joke; the joke being 'all correct' where neither the O or the K is correct....

I'm American and I have no idea where it came from. Sometimes it's spelled "okay".

Interesting question!

Abbreviation for the word Okay... which means accepting of approval of something.

i think what navigator meant was how this word actually originated..i used to know how but i forgot..i always that that it was an abbreviation of another word!

It is an abbreviation for a name of a congress member...or some

one who was running for the president ….his home town used to

call him O.K instead of the full name …

That what I know…
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American "O.K.", abbreviation of Obadiah Kelly, a shipping agent

American "O.K.", abbreviation of Old Keokuk, a Sac Indian chief

American "O.K.", contraction of "oll korrect". This was the choice
of a British judiciary committee that investigated the matter for a 1935 court case (MEU2)

American "O.K.", abbreviation of Orrins-Kendall crackers

American "O.K.", abbreviation of Otto Kaiser, American industrialist

American "O.K. Club". "O.K." gained national currency in 1840 as
the slogan of the "O.K. club", a club of supporters of then
President Martin Van Buren, in allusion to his nickname, "Old
Kinderhook" -- Van Buren was born in the village of Kinderhook,
N.Y. (pointed out in Qoloobs' post )

Greek olla kalla = "all good"

Latin omnia correcta = "all correct"

Mandingo (West African) = o ke "that's it", "all right"

Scots och aye! "oh yes"

Wolof (West African) "waw kay" = "yes indeed".

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source: abbrevation of OK (http://www.alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxokxxxx.html)

umm..nice one DD..really interesting..umm do all these countries agreed on this OK word?? ya3nee now every single country that u mentioned were saying a different words but starting with the same letter, so u think that they all agreed to call it OK as all of the words starts with O and K ??

Thx amooor.. well I think that those countries languages, had with time been using such expression or words. And after OK become popular to a specific meaning. Probably some languagist hunted down all the relevent OKs in every other language.. and those are some examples for that.

As it makes sense that most of them had a some how relating example of their language to OK.

I think its more like a simplicity method to combine all that together to mean OK...

for example there is HELLO ? ...whats that about.. :D though japanese say " Moshi moshi " :gap:

O.K!!!!:D