one theory is that it is an abbreviation for the misspelled Oll Korrect

Others feel it is a shortening of a term for martin Van Buren “Old Kinderhook”

Another story says that in 1840, the Democrats in New York created a body called the Democratic OK Club to support their candidate Martin Van Buren. “OK” here actually stood for “Old Kinderhook”, his birthplace in the state of New York.

But the most common and accepted origin is attributed to a spelling mistake made by Andrew Jackson during the presidential campaign in 1828. He wrote “ole korrek” on a document which contained the acquittal of a condemned man.

In 1932 it was officially included among the international terms for radio broadcasting. Later, during the Second World War, the American army used “O Killed” to refer to “zero killed”.

The historical record shows that “O.K.” appeared as an abbreviation for oll korrect (a conscious misspelling of “all correct”) in Boston newspapers in 1839, and was reinterpreted as “Old Kinderhook” in the 1840 United States presidential election. Because it is a recent word born of word play, and because it is so widely used, “O.K.” has also invited many folk etymologies. These competing theories are not supported by the historical written record, except in that folk and joke etymologies influenced the true history of the word. Since the 19th century, the word has spread around the world, the “okay” spelling of it first appearing in British writing in the 1860s. Spelled out in full in the 20th century, ‘okay’ has come to be in everyday use among English speakers, and borrowed by non-English speakers. Occasionally a humorous form okee dokee (or okey dokey) is used, as well as A-ok.

And since it’s an abbreviation, it’s proper spelling is OK, not ok or Ok.

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: â€Å“frightful letters â€Â¦ significant of the birth-place of Martin Van Buren, old Kinderhook, as also the rallying word of the Democracy of the late election, â€Ëœall correctâ€â„¢ …. Those who wear them should bear in mind that it will require their most strenuous exertions â€Â¦ to make all things O.K.”

It is hardly necessary to say to those who know Mr. Hughes, that his establishment will be found to be ‘A. No. One’ — that is, O.K. — all correct.

So if OK stands for “all correct,” wouldn’t it be “AC”? Not exactly, the word was intentionally misspelled. Much like the way people on the Internet shorten or abbreviate words when typing, OK was misspelled on purpose.

For instance, a lot of kids on line spell “cool,” “k-e-w-l,” kids know how to spell cool, but it just looks cooler to spell it “k-e-w-l.”

It was cool in certain East Coast cities in the mid-19th century to substitute OK for “all correct.”

Other abbreviations faded into obscurity, but the word OK stuck around. One of the reasons it weathered time is because it got a boost from then-president Martin Van Buren.

O omnificiently

K kalometicley

A alpha

Y yeney

this mens in translation i will be fine

yours truly Tim

I guess it’s an abbreviation.