Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-ngp.UTEXAS Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!amd!vecpyr!lll-crg!mordor!ut-sally!ut-ngp!cgeiger From: cgeiger@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (charles s. geiger) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.nlang.africa Subject: Re: Derivation of O.K. Message-ID: <1974@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 16:32:57 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.1974 Posted: Fri Jul 5 16:32:57 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 05:48:25 EDT References: <7329@watdaisy.UUCP> Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 5 Xref: watmath net.nlang:3346 net.nlang.africa:76 Forgive me if this has already been said, but I just read in the newspaper a couple of days ago that O.K. came from the campaign slogan of some ancient president (Martin Van Buren, or somebody like that), whose nickname was Old Kinderhook (or something like that). Please accept my apologies for not being very specific.