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TIL that “OK” is said to be the most widely spoken word in the world, having been adopted as a loanword in mamy languages. However, the etymology of the word is uncertain. (en.m.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 years ago by camelCaseGuy to c/[email protected]

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Stolen from /u/UralIveGotTonight from Reddit, but it's a real TIL for me.

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[–] Wolfric1982 3 points 2 years ago

Ok. Cool

[–] DarraignTheSane 1 points 2 years ago

Related, focuses on the Boston origin mentioned in the Wikipedia article:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UnIDL-eHOs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The most compelling explanation of the etymology that I've seen is that there was a meme where people would deliberately misspell short phrases, and one of the most common ones was to spell "All Correct" as "Oll Korrect"

[–] fubo 2 points 2 years ago

They didn't just have lolspeak; they also had cat memes.