Sometimes I think about how the word "OK" is one of the most globally widespread loanwords from the English language and as far as we can tell it started, in the most literal sense, as a meme Like it was a dumb fad to awkwardly spell things wrong and make them into initials
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Imagine if in the 2300s anytime someone delivers bad news it's customary to say or type the letter F and nobody knows why
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[I was about to ask about where OKeh Records fit into that, because I knew it was a very old label. So I looked it up, and it was founded in 1916, but the name is based on the owner's initials, not a spelling of "OK," which I had always assumed :) ]pic.twitter.com/2P8iuMqS43
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The "OK" meme started around 1838
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