All Correct, Old Kinderhook
President Martin Van Buren sometimes gets the credit for the invention of the word most associated with Americans. His 1840 campaign used OK as an abbreviation for Old Kinderhook, a reference to his hometown. But "o.k." had already shown up in a Boston newspaper as a joke abbreviation of the phrase "all correct," author Allan Metcalf tells us. Ok, but Van Buren's campaign surely spread the word. With the telegraph it took off, because yes has one more letter than ok.
BTW, IANA IBK ROTFLMAO. TLTBT! WIC WGFF? WOA, WOB, YMMV. BFN, NRN K?
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