Letters

[Potatoman]

What does OK stand for?

[florriebinn]

It has a number of origins, yet no real winner. The French claim it is a derivation of DACCORD - MEANING YES - i.e. the same soundings and syllables. Yet Scot's can have Och Aye! - meaning the affirmative - as one which pre-dates OK in the English lingo ....

[IndieSinger]

Have a read of someone else's opinion here.

[Angel41]

It stands for the word okay which means something is just alright

[Thomas]

It also stands for Oklahoma

[MikeMikeMike]

I read somehwere it's derived from an American military expression 'Oll Krect' meaning everything is as it should be.

[Lotus]

Im selling this for what I bought it, but I rather like the explanation, so ... Apparently, within the American military system, when troups would come back from battle, they would report on the number of people back. Something like '3 wounded, 1 killed, 15 alive' sort of thing. And to make this easier, they shortened the words they would say - so 1 killed would become 1k. And therefore 0 killed would be OK (and nobody killed is a very good thing, so the expression became widely used to express something positive)...