O.K.?

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it's another example of the *******izing of the american language.. the shortening an the slang for a-ok..
 
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Hint #2. The town is Kinderhook, NY.
 
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Well, I subscribe to the campaign story.<br /><br />That President was a neighbor and good friend of my G,G,Grandfather.
 
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jb- i lived in kinderhook as a young child. dad in the navy, my mom pregnant with my bro, and i a little brat, we were poor as hell and lived in a finished attic of a mansion. it happened to be next door to the house of history, van buren's old residence that was converted to a museum. what a great little town with tons of history. if we lived there a few more years, i would have attended the ichabod crane schoolhouse.<br /><br />i wonder if your g g grandfather lived in the same house as us.
 
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Don't know address, Mattttt. He was a merchant Captain and spent summers in his Kinderhook home. His name was Abraham Lawrence Braine. His son was Admiral Daniel Lawrence Braine who also spent his summers there. There was a Fletcher class DD named for DLB in WWII.<br /><br />Martin Van Buren was called "Old Kinderhook" or "OK" during the 1840 campaign. Though it may not have originated the expression, it did make it popular, and it remains so all over the world.<br /><br />FWIW, Van Buren lost that election.
 
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While involvement in an 1840 presidential campaign would likely popularize the use of ‘OK’ in print in the US, it doesn’t lend any substance to the definition of the word. My understanding is that the 1830’s term ‘all’s correct’ or ‘all correct’ and it’s pseudo-acronym, ‘OK’ had wide usage at social gatherings and events, but less so in print. However, the intentional, cutesy miss-spelling of ‘all correct’ as orl korrekt and its ‘OK’ acronym does support the meaning of the word. Also, I don’t see a presidential candidate's moniker gaining international acceptance in all foreign languages. The word ‘ok’ is used in every language, and it has the same meaning, that everything is fine, or all’s correct, in every language.<br /><br />What was the original question?<br /><br />
Originally posted by JB:<br /> Who can tell me, without Googling it, where the expression, O.K. came from?
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Ok is a word, no periods used in it. 'Orl korrekt' as an acronym would be o.k., and the initials of Old Kinderhook would be O.K. Since the original question used capital letters and periods, it seems the reference to Old Kinderhook would be the corret answer.
 
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Originally posted by One More Cast:<br /> Well at least now we know why JB is so smart... his Great Great Grandfather was a Braine. :D
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were do you think the 'B' in JB comes from..??
 
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I think this is a frigen troll! And I'm to the point where I dont care about where OK came from or what it meant! OK :D
 
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It's a coincidence that people were talking about this when I was in San Francisco last week.<br /><br />I heard that "O.K." were the initials of a military supplies officer that used to initial goods received at some military outpost during WWII. He would only initial goods that were fit for purpose. Word got around that if a receipt document had the initials "OK" on it - then the goods had made the grade. Otherwise they had not. Soon it became an expression - are these goods OK ?<br /><br />What do you reckon about this theory ?
 
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Originally posted by 62_Kiwi:<br /> It's a coincidence that people were talking about this when I was in San Francisco last week.<br /><br />I heard that "O.K." were the initials of a military supplies officer that used to initial goods received at some military outpost during WWII. He would only initial goods that were fit for purpose. Word got around that if a receipt document had the initials "OK" on it - then the goods had made the grade. Otherwise they had not. Soon it became an expression - are these goods OK ?<br /><br />What do you reckon about this theory ?
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Sure gald you posted kiwi<br />I wa refusing to do a bump just to get the answer :D
 
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