The word “OK” turned 175 years old on Sunday, March 23. Perhaps the most popular word in the English language, Oxford Dictionary shares a theory with Illinois English professor Allan Metcalf that OK comes from an abbreviation of “orl korrekt,” a derivative of “all correct” from the 1830s. It first appeared in print on page 2 of The Boston Morning Post, then one of the most popular papers in the US. Metcalf calls OK “the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet.” It was Columbia University professor Allen Walker Read who first found the first use of OK in print. Read died in 2002 after a lifetime interest in OK and a widely used 4-letter word that begins with F.
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