Winternet :twinterlune: on Nostr: the origin of "ok" is so weird like it's the sole survivor of a 1830s Boston and NYC ...
the origin of "ok" is so weird like it's the sole survivor of a 1830s Boston and NYC slang pattern where they intentionally misspelled words in funny ways and made abbreviations of them. that one example of this in particular endured, became ubiquitous in pretty much all english dialects and even spread to french
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