OK is not only used for online chatting or face-to-face conversation, many people like to express themselves with OK. In fact, so far, it can be said that OK has become one of the most widely used and well-known words in the world. In fact, OK has a long history, not a few years or decades, but 178 years. Today is March 23rd, OK ushered in its birth day. Although the "shape" of OK seems simple, there are many stories behind OK, do you know?
In fact, "OK" wave born in the abbreviation of19th century, and later became popular all over the world with gestures. At that time, in the late 1930s, educated young people had a practice of deliberately misspelling words and abbreviations, and then used these abbreviations as slang in their conversations with each other.
Another way of saying this is that OK 1839 was born in Boston. At that time, the humorous editor of Boston Morning Post used "OK" or "olkorrect" to indicate that it was completely correct when signing articles. On March 23rd, 1839, "OK" first appeared in newspapers. After that, OK gradually integrated into American life and never disappeared.
1840, US Democratic presidential candidate Martin Van Buren used "OK" as his campaign slogan. Others did this because new york-born old Jindehuke used the first two letters of this place name as his campaign slogan, which means "successful election". Then at the beginning of the 20th century, American President Wilson used "OK" to enhance his authority when approving documents.
In this way, the prompt that OK becomes a common word or abbreviation always exists. Unexpectedly, in 1969, the first sentence that astronaut Aldrin said on the moon was "OK, the engine stopped". Now OK not only has a long history of 178, but also becomes one of the "greatest words". Because OK has become one of the common words in the world and one of the greatest languages exported by the United States.
Recently, Nass, a retired English teacher in new york, USA, did such a thing. In the past few weeks, he distributed propaganda cards on the streets, advocating and supporting the establishment of "International OK Day". In fact, the purpose of this English teacher's doing this is mainly because the word OK is widely used, but people don't know its source, and the incident has attracted a lot of attention. Because "OK" has a long history and is widely used, Nass has made great efforts to support the designation of March 23rd as "International OK Day". After all, everyone knows when and where OK was born. Why not celebrate it on this day?