What does O.K. stand for?
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This question was decisively answered by Columbia University professor Allen Walker Read over 40 years ago.\n\n"OK" was invented as a humorous abbreviation for "oll korrect" in the midst of a popular fad for such abbreviations, which began to appear in Boston newspapers ca. 1838 (then spread across the nation). "OK" first appeared in newsprint in 1839 and was, like many other expressions of the time, very popular.\n\nBut this one outlived them all BECAUSE of "Old Kinderhook", the nickname for U.S. Vice President Martin VanBuren, who was running for President in 1840.\n\n(The name comes from the fact that his hometown was Kinderhook, New York. I don't have the documentation, but I believe "OLD Kinderhook" may have been coined by analogy with then President Andrew Jackson's nickname "Old Hickory." Compare other popular nicknames of that era -- "Young Hickory" [for James K Polk who, like Jackson, came from Tennessee], "Young Hickory of the Granite Hills" [coined for Franklin Pierce's presidential campaign], "Old Rough and Ready" [Zachary Taylor], "Old Fuss and Feathers" [Winfield Scott.. who did not like the name!], "Old Buck" [James Buchanan], and "Old Man Eloquent" [a nickname John Quincy Adams received while serving in the House of Representatives AFTER his Presidency]. As for VanBuren, the standard nicknames for this undersized, masterful politician were"the Little Magician" and "the Red Fox of Kinderhook".)\n\nAt any rate, supporters of "Old Kinderhook" decided to play off the newly popular expression, and formed "OK Clubs" to support him. The widespread use in the political campaign across the country established this abbreviation, which people discovered was rather handy, so it stuck.\n\nSo, two of the common explanations for the term are... 'OK'. The third most common explanation offered -- that Andrew Jackson, not the best of spellers, actually wrote the notation "OK" on papers, intending to mark them as "all correct". This explanation (and others) was the invention of Jackson critics, their response to the VanBuren campaign.
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I think it MIGHT be o.k.
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yes, what's that KPO thing???
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Word History \nOK is a quintessentially American term that has spread from English to many other languages. Its origin was the subject of scholarly debate for many years until Allen Walker Read showed that OK is based on a joke of sorts. OK is first recorded in 1839 but was probably in circulation before that date. During the 1830s there was a humoristic fashion in Boston newspapers to reduce a phrase to initials and supply an explanation in parentheses. Sometimes the abbreviations were misspelled to add to the humor. OK was used in March 1839 as an abbreviation for all correct, the joke being that neither the O nor the K was correct. Originally spelled with periods, this term outlived most similar abbreviations owing to its use in President Martin Van Buren's 1840 campaign for reelection. Because he was born in Kinderhook, New York, Van Buren was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and the abbreviation proved eminently suitable for political slogans. That same year, an editorial referring to the receipt of a pin with the slogan O.K. had this comment: “frightful letters … significant of the birth-place of Martin Van Buren, old Kinderhook, as also the rallying word of the Democracy of the late election, ‘all correct’ .... Those who wear them should bear in mind that it will require their most strenuous exertions … to make all things O.K.”\n\nOK \nfrom American English\nThis word originated in United States\n\nAmerica's greatest contribution to the English language and indeed to languages all over the world is a joke. Or at least that's how it began.\n\nIn the summer of 1838 newspaper columnists in Boston thought nothing funnier than to reduce a phrase to its initials (with an explanation in parentheses). Allen Walker Read, the premier historian of our most famous expression, found this example in the Boston Morning Post of June 12, 1838: "We understand that J. Eliot Brown, Esq., Secretary of the Boston Young Men's Society for Meliorating the Condition of the Indians, F.A.H. (fell at Hoboken, N.J.) on Saturday last at 4 o'clock, p.m. in a duel W.O.O.O.F.C. (with one of our first citizens.) What measures will be taken by the Society in consequence of this heart rending event, R.T.B.S. (remains to be seen)."\n\nTo add to the humor, columnists sometimes misspelled the abbreviations. One 1838 example was O.W., meaning "all right," with blatant misspellings of both initial letters. That set the stage for an even more outrageous misspelling in March 1839: O.K., translated as "all correct." The joke was that neither O nor K was correct.\n\nO.K. might have died out with O.W., R.T.B.S., and the rest of the laughable abbreviations if "Old Kinderhook," President Martin Van Buren (born in Kinderhook, New York), hadn't running for reelection in 1840. "O.K. clubs" supporting him were established throughout the country. Old Kinderhook lost, but O.K. won a permanent place in American English.\n\nUntil about 1900, however, O.K. remained obscure. Even Mark Twain apparently never used it. But the twentieth century turned out to be an OK century, perhaps encouraged by scholarly President Woodrow Wilson's use of "okeh" on official documents. (He spelled it "okeh" because he mistakenly thought it came from the Choctaw Indian language.) It was streamlined, too, in this century, increasingly written without the periods that mark it as a mock abbreviation. We now live in an OK world where it is difficult to imagine a conversation or a computer session without frequent use of OK.\n\nOK\nOrigin: 1839\n\nIs it a word, a phrase, an abbreviation, an acronym? Do you spell it O.K., OK, o.k., or okay? Any way, it's OK. This most uncategorizable of Americanisms is categorically the most successful of all time. OK is "all correct."\n\nThat was its original meaning, an in-your-face misspelling of the first letters of all and correct. In 1839, when we f
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'KKD' - what the hell are you on about, a Key-Gen?! - This Yahoo!er is asking for drivers!\n\nIdiot.
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e-KO-sa-hex-a-KNOW-ick\n\ndo-KO-sa-hex-a-KNOW-ick
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-The expression "okay" in the English language and other languages. \n-The U.S. postal abbreviation for the state of Oklahoma \n-The IATA airline designator for Czech Airlines \n-An alternate reference to the international convenience store chain Circle K \n-The International OK Dinghy, a single handed racing dinghy \n-OK! magazine, a British celebrity magazine
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It could either be a misspelling of OOPS or I saw OPPs as an abbreviation earlier tonight meaning OTHER PEOPLES PROPERTY!  Not sure what it meant in your experiences.
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/a.o. on the overhaul/\n\na.o. means account of.\non the overhaul is to examine completely so as to make any changes that are needed.
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The letter o is a number
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K is added to traffic and to picnic before the suffixes to give trafficking, trafficker, and trafficked, and picnicking, picnicked, picnicker, and picnicky.\n\nI don't know if that's what you mean though!
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That would be "B O"\nIt stands for body odor\nPreventing it is the basis for billions of dollars of sales in deodorants, antiperspirants, soaps, perfumes and on an on.
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Both of their names start with the letter "K"
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OBC stands for OTHER BACKWARD COMMUNITIES.\nIn India certain communities are termed as forward and certain as backwards etc based on their level of education over the last 50 years etc and even the constitution mentions.Since these backward communities cannot compete with forward communities in the matter of admission to professional colleges etc certain percentages are kept reserved for them\nThe percentage has become an issue between the forward and backward communities and the various political parties, the Govt etc etc
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OK \nOK has many meanings, the most common of which is an affirmative command with unknown origins.\n\nOK can mean:\n\nThe expression "okay" in the English language and other languages. \nThe U.S. postal abbreviation for the state of Oklahoma \nThe IATA airline designator for Czech Airlines \nAn alternate reference to the international convenience store chain Circle K \nThe International OK Dinghy, a single handed racing dinghy \nOK! magazine, a British celebrity magazine \n\nThe history (if not the spelling!) of the term OK is largely debated. Some claim its derivation from the Chocktaw affirmative okeh, the Greek ola kalla, the Latin hoc ille -- all historically verifiable usages -- amongst others. It is argued that the cause of the success of the term in the US (regardless of its origin) is due to a fad of using initialisms during the 1830s and '40s. This fad of initialisms (eg: "TGIF", "FYI", "DIY") even went so far as generating letter combinations of intentional misspellings; popular ones were: "K.G.," for "know go," "K.Y.," for "know yuse," and "O.W.," for "oll write". "O.K." naturally followed, standing for "oll korrect". "O.K." is the only one that survived through the years, thanks perhaps to the precedence of the aforementioned affirmatives, but more certainly to the sloganeering during the presidential election campaign of Martin Van Buren. Born in Kinderhook, New York, Van Buren was nicknamed "Old Kinderhook" -- echoing the "oll korrect" initialism -- early in his political career. "O.K." became the rallying cry of the Old Kinderhook Club, a political organization supporting Van Buren during the 1840 campaign. H. L. Mencken would later describe the term as "the most shining and sucessful Americanism ever invented." It is arguably the most popular as well, uttered in several foreign languages.\n\n\n[Some information on history taken from Prentice Hall Literature, Timeless voices, Timeless Themes. The American Experience.
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Word History: OK is a quintessentially American term that has spread from English to many other languages. Its origin was the subject of scholarly debate for many years until Allen Walker Read showed that OK is based on a joke of sorts. OK is first recorded in 1839 but was probably in circulation before that date. During the 1830s there was a humoristic fashion in Boston newspapers to reduce a phrase to initials and supply an explanation in parentheses. Sometimes the abbreviations were misspelled to add to the humor. OK was used in March 1839 as an abbreviation for all correct, the joke being that neither the O nor the K was correct. Originally spelled with periods, this term outlived most similar abbreviations owing to its use in President Martin Van Buren's 1840 campaign for reelection. Because he was born in Kinderhook, New York, Van Buren was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and the abbreviation proved eminently suitable for political slogans. That same year, an editorial referring to the receipt of a pin with the slogan O.K. had this comment: “frightful letters... significant of the birth-place of Martin Van Buren, old Kinderhook, as also the rallying word of the Democracy of the late election, ‘all correct’.... Those who wear them should bear in mind that it will require their most strenuous exertions... to make all things O.K.”
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There's oodles but here's my favorite K words\nkiss\nknow\nkarma \nkaput\nkarat\nkooky\nkudo