Tell me " OK " is an english word?

Question

All are using this " OK " word at the time of something accepting , after understanding , after observation etc. I want to know whether this word was used in any of the novel , story or poems etc.

Answer 1

OK denotes  ÃƒÂ… káy

Of the many competing theories about the origins of OK, the one now most widely accepted is that the letters stand for oll or orl korrect, a facetious early-19th-century American phonetic spelling of all correct. This was reinforced by the fact that they were also coincidentally the initial letters of Old Kinderhook, the nickname of U.S. president Martin Van Buren (who was born in Kinderhook, New York State), which were used as a slogan in the presidential election of 1840 (a year after the first record of OK in print).

Answer 2

well the real word is okay said the same and its a real word

Answer 3

see it all originated wuth the term all correct which got the short form ok. n then it came to be reguarded as a word for situations like is fine alright etc. modern novels do have the word but classics dont. any way its too imbibed in the english lang today atleast verbally

Answer 4

the real word is okay...

Answer 5

The earliest claimed usage of okay is a 1790 court record from Sumner County, Tennessee, discovered in 1859 by a Tennessee historian named Albigence Waldo Putnam, in which Andrew Jackson apparently said:

"proved a bill of sale from Hugh McGary to Gasper Mansker, for a ***** man, which was O.K.

However, the record is hand-written rather than typed, and James Parton's 1860 biography of Jackson suggested—and Woodford Heflin's (the Dictionary of American English staffer in charge of the "O.K." entry) 1941 photographic analysis suggested—that it is really a poorly written O.R., which was the abbreviation used for Order Recorded.

so i think its an english word..

Answer 6

It isn't used like that, it's an abbreviation. If you are using it in writing you should write it fully as "okay". And you should never use it in an essay or official letter etc. as it is too informal.

Answer 7

there is no doubt..

Answer 8

It is slang for word "OkAY".

It is not used for any offical documents, but people use "OK" in less trivial wriring.

In the early 19th Century,Humourists liked to deliberately misspell words lik  that 'OK' is an abbreviation for 'oll korrect', a humorous play on the words 'all correct'. And the first known printing of the word 'OK' was in the newspaper the Boston Morning Post on 23 March, 1839, in this context.

The term 'OK' was only popular for a while. Eventually it disappeared. But it was later revived when the Democrats in New York, USA sponsored their candidate, Martin Van Buren. Because Buren was from Kinderhook, New York, his nickname was 'Old Kinderhook', which was abbreviated 'OK'. They started a 'Democratic OK' club and used the term 'OK' as a catchphrase.

Another theory that surrounds 'OK' is that US President Andrew Jackson used it to approve legal documents. Jackson was not a good speller and 'ole korreck' was supposedly how Jackson spelled 'all correct'. When journalists heard about this, they wrote many stories about it in the newspapers. This is how 'OK', Andrew Jackson, and 'all correct' became fixed in American Folklore.

The term 'OK' was used many, many times in newspapers, until the real origins of the word were forgotten, except the Andrew Jackson tale.

There are several other stories regarding 'OK'. One was that a painter named Oscar Kokoschka signed his work with a large 'OK'.

A more recent legend is that a man in a Ford car factory, named Oscar Kolle, that had the job of making sure all the parts being manufactured were good. If the item passed his 'quality assurance' test, then he would put his initials, 'OK', on the part.

And so, as the years went on, and people used 'OK' more and more often.

Answer 9

The origin of this is believed to be from a railway worker with poor literacy being told verbally to mark freight cars "all correct" in chalk when they were loaded. He interpreted this as "orl korekt". He then abbrieviated it to OK, and it has stuck.

Answer 10

yes it no doubt will have been used in those ways-

Answer 11

Okay is an informal term of approval, assent, or acknowledgment (often written as OK or O.K.). When used to describe the quality of something, it denotes being fit for purpose ("this is okay to send out") or of a quality which is acceptable but not great ("the food was okay"). When used in dialogue, it can denote compliance ("okay, I'll do that"), agreement ("okay, that's good"), a wish to defuse a situation or calm someone ("okay, it's not that bad"), or even formal approval ("you're okay to do that"). As with most slang, its meaning is determined by context or type of speech.

The origins of okay are not known with certainty, and have been the subject of much discussion and academic interest over the years. While it originated as an English language word it is commonly used in many other languages in the 21st Century.