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The word okay originated in 1830s Boston as a humorous abbreviation of the misspelling oll korrect.

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Is it true that the word okay originated in 1830s Boston as a humorous abbreviation of the misspelling oll korrect?

Yes. Two reference works state that OK/okay originated around Boston in the late 1830s as part of a fad of abbreviating misspellings, specifically as an initialism of "oll korrect," a deliberate misspelling of "all correct."

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OK
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OK. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK

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Historical Evidence on the Etymology of "OK."
1994
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Dennie, H. (1994). Historical Evidence on the Etymology of "OK.". eric.ed.gov. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED366209

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