Eli5 the word okay/ok

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Is ok agreeing and ok saying it’s okay?

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“OK” actually stems from a deliberate misspelling of “all correct” as “oll korrect”, made popular in the 1830s as what we would today recognize as a meme. The spelling “okay” then is actually a phonetic representation of what was originally an abbreviation, so they have identical meaning.

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