I moonlight as an (incredibly) amateur etymologist so anytime I see something that looks into where words come from my interest is piqued.

So, lo and behold Vox pops up on the ol' YouTube with a brief video on where the word “OK” comes from.

I dunno, I figured it was short for “okay” and never really thought about… “well then where did OKAY come from?!”

Turns out it’s a shorthand for “oll korrect”, itself a deliberate misspelling of “All correct” from the 1800s when apparently making acronyms for everything was deeply en vogue (I just ‘fr fr’ isn’t just a zoomer thing).