Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1.chuqui 4/7/84; site voder.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!nsc!voder!gino From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.nlang Subject: Re: Origins of Words Message-ID: <390@voder.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 16:18:30 EDT Article-I.D.: voder.390 Posted: Wed Sep 26 16:18:30 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Sep-84 05:46:01 EDT References: <1137@eosp1.UUCP> <1228@ihuxq.UUCP> Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara Lines: 9 >> According to my high school German teacher, the word OK comes from >> the name of an inspector in a VW plant, Otto K???, who wrote his >> initials on each car that passed inspection. Of course, I don't have >> any definitive references either. >> -- >> Peter Fales Have you ever driven an 1850 VW? -- Gene E. Bloch (...!nsc!voder!gino)