to chang dong y cho lam nhung post len de moi nguooi tham khao. chiu kho doc tieng Anh nhe. “OK” means “all right” or “acceptable.” It expresses agreement or approval. Millions of people all over the world use the word “okay.” In fact, some people say the word is used more often than any other word in the world. Still, language experts do not agree about where it came from.
Some say it came from the native American Indian tribe known as the Choctaws. The Choctaw word “okeh” means the same as the American word “OK.” Experts say early explorers in the American West spoke the Choctaw language in the nineteenth century. The language spread across the country.
But many people dispute this. Language expert Allen Walker Read wrote about the word “OK” in articles published in the nineteen sixties. He said the word began as a short way of writing a different spelling of the words “all correct.” Old stories say some foreign-born people would write all correct as o-l-l k-o-r-r-e-c-t but speak it as “OK.”
Others say “OK” was a way to shorten Greek words that mean everything is fine. Still others say a railroad worker named Obadiah Kelly invented the word. They say he put the first letters of his names — O and K — on each object people gave him to place on the train.
Another explanation is that “OK” was invented by a political organization that supported Martin Van Buren for president in the eighteen hundreds. They called their organization the OK Club. The letters O and K were taken from the name of the town where Martin Van Buren was born — Old Kinderhook, New York.
Not everyone agrees with this explanation either. But experts do agree that the word is purely American and has spread to almost every country on Earth. Yet in the United States, it is used mostly in speech, not in writing. Serious writers would rather use such words as “agree,” “approve” or “confirm” instead.
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