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Young “intellectual” types in Boston delighted those “in the know” with butchered coded messages such as KC, or “knuff ced”, KY, “know yuse,” and OW, “oll wright.”
Haha. But thanks to a couple of lucky breaks, one abbreviation rose above the rest: OK, or “oll korrect."
In the early 1800s, “all correct” was a common phrase used to confirm that everything was in order.
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