TIL that “OK” is said to be the most widely spoken word in the world, having been adopted as a loanword in mamy languages. However, the etymology of the word is uncertain.

camelCaseGuy@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

TIL that “OK” is said to be the most widely spoken word in the world, having been adopted as a loanword in mamy languages. However, the etymology of the word is uncertain.

DarraignTheSane@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Related, focuses on the Boston origin mentioned in the Wikipedia article:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UnIDL-eHOs

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 1 year ago

The most compelling explanation of the etymology that I’ve seen is that there was a meme where people would deliberately misspell short phrases, and one of the most common ones was to spell “All Correct” as “Oll Korrect”

fubo@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

They didn’t just have lolspeak; they also had cat memes.

TIL that “OK” is said to be the most widely spoken word in the world, having been adopted as a loanword in mamy languages. However, the etymology of the word is uncertain.

TIL that “OK” is said to be the most widely spoken word in the world, having been adopted as a loanword in mamy languages. However, the etymology of the word is uncertain.

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