What does OK stands for?

[Joao Fonseca]

Hi folks, talking to a friend, he told that OK is a initial, I said yes, ok means everything is fine. he said no, so that´s I came ans ask you folks what does is means?
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[Political Lurker]

Ok is the most internationally recognized sign on Earth and it means... Yes

Acceptable, passable, affirmative etc

Its not as positive as a lot make out. - I wouldn't call it "fine" fine is more positive than OK One meaning of OK is just enough to "pass" but not great - but at the same time one could never say OK was "Bad" or no good.
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[OxfordBlues]

From etymonline.com:

1839, only survivor of a slang fad in Boston and New York c.1838-9 for abbreviations of common phrases with deliberate, jocular misspellings (cf. K.G. for "no go," as if spelled "know go"); in this case, "oll korrect." Further popularized by use as an election slogan by the O.K. Club, New York boosters of Democratic president Martin Van Buren's 1840 re-election bid, in allusion to his nickname Old Kinderhook, from his birth in the N.Y. village of Kinderhook. Van Buren lost, the word stuck, in part because it filled a need for a quick way to write an approval on a document, bill, etc. The noun is first attested 1841; the verb 1888. Spelled out as okeh, 1919, by Woodrow Wilson, on assumption that it represented Choctaw okeh "it is so" (a theory which lacks historical documentation); this was ousted quickly by okay after the appearance of that form in 1929. Okey-doke is student slang first attested 1932. Greek immigrants to America who returned home early 20c. having picked up U.S. speech mannerisms were known in Greece as okay-boys, among other things.
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[Torsten]

Your question should read 'What does OK stand for'.

TOEIC short conversations: A customer is getting put through to his accountant.

[DavidK]

o means open your mind and K stand for life

[Joao Fonseca]

Hi dear Torsten,
how´s everything? thanks, I am still learning, and when I am at the keyboard sometimes I go too fast and make some stupid mistakes, but being a humble student I thank you ever so much. I love your hard work at this site, I am on vacation right now, and kind of dead tired of studying english. Later I´ll be back for some more understanding of english knowledgement. hugs.
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