עוד על OK
להלן המקור ממקורות יודעי דבר: "The letters stand for "oll korrect" and are the result of a fad for comical abbreviations that flourished in the 1830s and 1840s. Read buttressed his arguments with hundreds of citations from newspapers and other documents of the period...the fad began in Boston in the summer of 1838...Many of the abbreviations were exaggerated misspellings which were a stock in trade of humourists of the day. One predecessor of OK was OW "oll wright", and there was also KY "know yuse"...Most of the acronyms enjoyed only a brief popularity but OK was an exception... Democratic supporters of Martin Van Buren adopted it as the name of their political club, thereby giving OK a double meaning ("Old Kinderhook" as Van Buren was known, was a native of Kinderhook, NY). OK became the warcry of Tammany hooligans in New York... and was mentioned in newspaper stories across the country...by the time the campaign was over, the expression had taken firm root nationwide