OK cames from the abreviation: O Killed (Zero Killed) it came from World War II.
C'est OK
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Hardly, Sigma. The word has been in use since at least the 1830's, and its etymology is hotly disputed, but may come from a fad of misspelled abbreviations, a Cherokee or African loan, or any of a few other theories, none of them proven. But it is at least a hundred years older than WW2.
OK: Abbreviation of oll korrect, slang respelling of all correct.
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