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From: cgeiger@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (charles s. geiger)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.nlang.africa
Subject: Re: Derivation of O.K.
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Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 16:32:57 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  5 16:32:57 1985
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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.