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Try to remember, how many times you type the word ‘ok’ or ‘okay’ on the page
Chat
in a day?Countless, right?
Naturally.The word ‘okay’ or what in English becomes ‘ok’ is the most common word for many people in everyday life.
But, do you know that ‘ok’ is actually an abbreviation?The word ‘ok’ is even said to be considered a joke in the past.
Quoting the page
Merriam-Webster
, A writer, Allan Metcalf, explores the history of the word ‘ok’ in his book,
OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word
(2010).
Metcalf traces the word ‘OK’ based on historian research and United States (US) Linguist Allen Walker Read.Read traces the origin of the word into a witty text in the article on
Boston Morning Post
1839.
The article actually contained a small satire from a newspaper editor to another editor.However, in the middle of the article, a sentence slipped the word ‘
All Correct
‘side by side with’
(ok)
‘.This can mean the writer wants to make an abbreviation of ‘All Correct’.
At that time, things like this were considered as jokes.The author deliberately made an abbreviation, but not in accordance with the letters used.
In the case of ‘
All Correct
‘, for example, the abbreviation should be’ OC ‘.But, the authors make the abbreviation that is not appropriate to be ‘OK’, because the pronunciation of the letters C and K is similar.
Western countries also recognize the abbreviation ‘Kg’ from ‘
Know Go
‘, the real meaning is’
no go
‘.When the letters K and N are put together, the pronunciation will be similar to N.
The word ‘ok’ reappears in the article
Boston Morning Post
Others a few days later.Slowly, the word ‘ok’ seeps into the use of daily language since 1939.
At that time, although ‘OK’ had become a language product in everyday life, its origin was still debated.There are also those who suspect this word comes from army biscuits, Orrin Kendall, or a Choctaw chief named Old Sokuk.
Only in the 1960s, Allen Walker Read, revealed the real origins of ‘OK’.
(ASR/BAC)
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