skad wzielo sie OK ??

"0 killed" (zero zabitych), z jakiejs wojny, jak wywieszali codziennie listy z nazwiskami poleglych

sfrom the initials of oll (or orl) KORRECT, JOC. SPELLING OF ALL CORRECT , and first used in 1839, it was used as a slogan for a candidate from Old Kinderhook in the American election of 1840.. The Oxford Popular English Dictionary

The first publicly acknowledged recorded use of 'OK' was by or associated with Andrew Jackson, 7th US President from 1829-37, to mean 'Orl Korrect', possibly attributed in misspelt form to him mocking his early lack of education. The first use of 'OK' in print was in the Boston Morning Post of 23 March 1839 by CG Green, as a reference to 'Old Kinderhook', the nickname for Martin Van Buren, (a favourite of and successor to Jackson), who was 8th US President from 1837-41, whose home town was Kinderbrook, New York. The African US slave languages 'Ewe' and 'Wolof' both contained the word 'okay' to mean 'good'. Slavery in the US effectively began in 1620 and lasted until 1865, so this was certainly an early American origin of the term. Probably even pre-dating this was a derivation of the phonetic sound 'okay' meaning good, from a word in the native American Choctow language. The American anecdotal explanation of railroad clerk Obidiah Kelly marking every parcel that he handled with his initials is probably not true, nevertheless the myth itself helped establish the term. Perhaps just as tenuously, from the early 1800's the French term 'Aux Quais', meaning 'at or to the quays' was marked on bales of cotton in the Mississippi River ports, as a sign of the bale being handled or processed and therefore 'okayed'. (The modern-day French public notice 'acces aux quais', means to the trains.) A similar French derivation perhaps the use of the expression 'Au Quai' by cotton inspectors in the French Caribbean when rating the quality of cotton suitable for export. (Ack GR) In a similar vein, women-folk of French fishermen announced the safe return of their men with the expression 'au quai' (meaning 'back in port', or literally 'at the quayside'). (Ack DH) The expression '0 Killed' was a standard report, and no doubt abbreviation to 'OK', relating to a nigh-time's fatalities during the First World War, 1914-18. In Europe, The Latin term 'Omnes Korrectes' was traditionally marked on students test papers to mean 'all correct'. The Greek 'ola kala' means 'all is well'. The Finnish 'oikea' means correct. Scottish 'och aye' means 'yes' or 'for sure' (from the Scottish pronunciation of 'oh, aye', aye being old English for yes). The Scottish expression 'Och Aye' was mimicked by the English in a mocking fashion, and this became 'okay'. (Ack JM) In the Victorian era, during the British occupation of India, the natives could not speak English very well, so "all correct" sounded like "orl krect". This was soon shortened to OK, hence our modern usage of the term. (Ack. Philip Holbourn) If you know any other origin of OK or okay please contact us and we'll add it to the list.

wyjaśnisz, zamiast kopiować pół angielskiego słownika :O

to nie slownik angielski tylko strona internetowa z wyjasnieniem pochodzenia ang. slow, lub fraz :-) Uczmy sie jezykow :D :D :D

amerfykański prezydent (nazwisko se znajdź wyżej, tyle możesz) tak podpisywał dokumenty, uznajac że są w porządku. Dokumentów miał duzo, więc pisał skróem. A że był bęcwałem nie znającym ortografii, to myślał, ze "all correct" pisze się "ol korekt" OK.

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