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[Nicolas Ward]

On 11/21/06, Jim Moskowitz <jim at jimmosk.com> wrote:
> I've seen reports that a similar fascination with ignorance in the
> 1840s brought us a slang spelling 'Oll Korrect', later abbreviated
> 'OK', which because rather popular as I understand....  Any truth to
> the story?

Wikipedia agrees with you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay

Does that count as truth?

--Nick

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