Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hoxna.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!hoxna!kfl From: kfl@hoxna.UUCP (Kenton Lee) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.nlang Subject: Re: Origins of Words (OK) Message-ID: <348@hoxna.UUCP> Date: Sat, 13-Oct-84 23:40:02 EDT Article-I.D.: hoxna.348 Posted: Sat Oct 13 23:40:02 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Oct-84 05:28:28 EDT References: <326@klipper.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 7 xxx According to something I read years ago, OK is short for "Old Kinderhook", the nickname of Martin Van Buren. He used "OK" alot during his term and it caught on in the US. -- Kenton Lee, Bell Labs - WB 1D302, x7178 wb3g!kfl or hoxna!kfl