OK (spelling variations include okay , O.K. , and ok ) is an American English word denoting approval, acceptance, agreement, assent, a...
English word denoting approval, acceptance, agreement, assent, acknowledgment, or a sign of indifference. OK is frequently used as a loanword in other languages. It has been described as the most frequently spoken or written word on the planet.
As an adjective, OK principally means "adequate" or "acceptable"
The general fad is speculated to have existed in spoken or informal written U.S. English for a decade or more before its appearance in newspapers. OK's original presentation as "all correct" was later varied with spellings such as "Oll Korrect" or even "Ole Kurreck".
The abbreviation fad began in Boston in the summer of 1838 ... and used expressions like OFM, "our first men," NG, "no go," GT, "gone to Texas," and SP, "small potatoes." Many of the abbreviated expressions were exaggerated misspellings, a stock in trade of the humorists of the day. One predecessor of OK was OW, "oll wright."
International usage of OK word
In India, it is often used after a sentence to mean "did you get it?", often not regarded politely, for example, "I want this job done, OK?" or at the end of a conversation (mostly on the phone) followed by "bye" as in "OK, bye."
In Indonesia, OK is also used as a slogan of national television station RCTI since the year 1994.
In Pakistan, OK has become a part of Urdu and Punjabi languages.
In Germany, OK is spelled as o.k. or O.K. or okay. It may be pronounced as in English, but /ɔˈkeː/ or /oˈkeː/ are also common.
The meaning ranges from acknowledgement to describing something neither good nor bad, same as in US/UK usage.
In Maldivian Okay is used in different ways, often used to agree with something, more often used while departing from a gathering "Okay Dahnee/Kendee."
In Singapore, OK is often used with suffixes used in "Singlish" such as OK lor, OK lah, OK meh, OK leh, which are used in different occasions.
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The oldest recorded use of the word
The word OK might be one of the most versatile and commonly used expressions in the English language. In fact, people rarely fail to use it while writing a paragraph in English, including me. The reason is very simple, OK is a word that can be used as a noun, a verb, an interjection, and an adjective. Being an adjective, OK denotes for 'adequate or acceptable'. When used as an interjection, it denotes 'compliance or agreement'. And it means 'assent' when it is used as a noun. It is also said that OK can be used as a loanword😮in other languages.
It basically stands for “Oll Korrect”, “Ole Kurreck” or “Orl Korrekt” a word slightly different from “All Correct” in Greek. Though there have been various theories given by various scholars on the full of the word OK, none of them has been finalized. It includes from Scottish ‘och aye’ and then native Choctaw Indian term ‘okeh’ (it is so) to French phrase ‘aux Cayes’(Cayes was a port known for its rum). In Greece, OK stands for “Ola Kala” which means all is well👍.
What does OK mean?
OK (okay) is a colloquial English word denoting approval, acceptance, assent, or acknowledgment.
OK is most likely short for “Oll Korrect” or “Ole Kurreck” or “Orl Korrekt”, a jokey misspelling of “All Correct” that needs a little historical context to make sense. In the late 1830s, a slang fad inspired young, educated folks in New York and make tongue-in-cheek acronyms for deliberate misspellings of common phrases. This led to arcane abbreviations like KY for “no use” (know yuse) and NC for “enough said” (nuff ced).
Note:
According to American etymologist and lexicographer Allen Walker Read, OK did not stem from the Choctaw word okeh or oke. Nor did it come from olla kalla, Greek for “all good.”
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