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It covers 1 Origins
1.1 Choctaw Language 1.2 Allen Walker Read 1.3 African Origins 1.4 Popularity 1.5 Other Uses and Apocryphal Explanations
1.5.1 Initials 1.5.2 See also 2 Reference 3 External links
QUOTE: Allen Walker Read wrote six articles in the journal American Speech in 1963 and 1964 on the origins of the word. He dismissed the Choctaw origins as mythic folklore, emphasizing the possibility that "OK" arose as a cute abbreviation.
He believed the word to be short for any of several different spellings of "all correct", including "Oll Korrect", "Orl Korrect", and "Ole Kurreck". There was a fad in the 1830s and 1840s involving the intentional misspelling of common phrases, and referring to them by the resulting initials. UNQUOTE
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