
“OK’ is the all-purpose American expression that became an all-purpose English expression that became an all-purpose expression in dozens of other languages. It can be an enthusiastic cheer (A parking spot! OK!), an unenthusiastic ‘meh’ (How was the movie? It was… OK.), a way to draw attention to a topic shift (OK. Here’s the next thing we need to do), or a number of other really useful things. It’s amazing that we ever got along without it at all. But we did. Until 1839. There may be more stories about the origin of ‘OK’ than there are uses for it…” w/ photos





