The word OK is the most successful one in the American language. It has penetrated into hundreds of other languages and has been adopted as a common word by other languages. Manken pointed out that American troops stationed overseas during World War II found that Bedouins in the Sahara desert used the word OK to talk to Japanese in the Pacific Ocean. The word OK is also the fourth spoken word on the surface of the moon:

Buzz aldrin: Turn on the light.

Neil armstrong: Almost.

Aldrin: OK. The engine stopped. ACA brake release.

Armstrong: Brake release, automatic.

Aldrin: Mode control, fully automatic. Landing engine orders jump, disengage! Engine arm, falling off. 4 13 input.

Charles Duke (Houston Communication): We filmed you, Eagle.

Armstrong: the engine arm has fallen off ... Houston, this is calm ground. The eagle landed.

Roger, calm down. We filmed you on the ground. You've become depressed. We can breathe again. thank you

Despite the successful use of the word OK, for many years, no one knew the exact source of the word. The publication of OK became the holy grail of etymology. Finally, at 1963, the owner of our story, Dr. Alan Walker Reid of Columbia University, appeared, and he revealed the origin of the word OK.

First of all, there are several popular sayings about the origin of OK. These popular sayings may be denied because of lack of evidence or the word "OK" came into being before things that might produce the word.

OK stands for the spelling mistake of "oll Oll korrect" and "all right". This spelling mistake was caused by a famous person, maybe andrew jackson! This statement is basically consistent with the word OK, but it is still not accurate enough.

OK stands for Old Kinderhook, which is the nickname of a man named Martin Van Buren from Kinderhook, New York. Old Jindehuke played a great role in the popularization of this word, but this is not the origin of OK (which will be discussed later). OK comes from any of many languages, and the most common word is okeh. This statement often mentions andrew jackson, but the word comes from Hindi, not because of spelling changes. Later, a president named Woodrow Wilson agreed with this statement, but he was wrong. This statement has been popular until 1885, but there is no evidence that the word OK comes from any foreign language.

OK is the abbreviation of Oberst Kommandant or Colonel-in-Command, which was used by von Stuben or Schlieson during the revolutionary war. But until 1839, there is no written record of the use of the word OK by the above two people or anyone else.

OK comes from French Aux Cayes, a port name in Haiti, which is famous for rum.

OK stands for Orrin Kendall, a biscuit brand supplied to the federal army during the American Civil War. The word OK was used in the civil war 20 years ago.

OK is also the abbreviation of "on-off key", which is a telegraph term in the 19 era.

Of all the above statements, the first one is closest to the truth, but it is also incorrect. Andrew jackson is famous for his poor spelling. It was so bad that it became a big problem in the battle of 1828. Dan Quayle can cheer up and say that he is not the first. However, he is not famous for using the expression OK or misspelling the two letters in "all correct". The connection between OK and Jackson is not completely groundless. George W. Timson quoted a court record in Sana 'a County, Tennessee in 1790 in his book Brick of Knowledge published in 1934. In this record, Jackson once approved a black sales order, which was handed over by Hugh McGarry to Jasper mansker, and the approval was OK. However, this may also be due to the poor handwriting of the court staff. James Barton's biography of Jackson points out that this is actually a scrawled operating room, which is short for order record.

The statement about spelling mistakes is correct. Although the part about andrew jackson is not credible. Alan Walker Reid of Columbia University revealed the mystery of the word OK in his series of papers on American spoken language from 1963 to 1964. As Lide said, in 1839, a playful group in Boston called "Against Jingle Bells Association" began to use the word OK instead of the funny spelling mistake of "Oll korrect".

The recorded usage of OK first appeared in the Boston Morning Post in the spring of 1839, and the excerpt is as follows:

(April 10) "People who know Mr. Hughes hardly need to say that the association he founded is first-class. That's really no problem-absolutely right, there's nothing to say. "

By July of that year, the word OK had spread to the south and new york, and was quickly accepted by the public.