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Van Buren’s supporters formed OK Clubs all over the country, and their message was pretty clear: Old Kinderhook was “oll korrect.” The campaign was highly publicized and turned pretty nasty in the press.
His opponents ended up turning the abbreviation around on him, saying it stood for “Orful Konspiracy” or “Orful Katastrophe”
Hah. In the end, even a clever nickname didn’t save Van Buren’s presidency.
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Pronunciation spelling of awful.
“I ain't bin werry well lately, and, to crown the hole, I was cort in the Lizzard, I think, as they called it, on that awful Munday nite, and that was pretty nearly a settler for both my old bones and my breth, and might ha' bin quite so, if one of the werry kindest Members of the old Copperashun as I nos on, who had bin a dining with a jolly party on 'em, hadn't kindly directed my notise to about a harf bottle-full of werry fine old Port, with the remarkabel kind words, "That's just about what you wants, Mr. ROBERT, to take you ome safely this most orful nite!"”
Pronunciation spelling of awful.
“"It's orful silly of you to stick to that notion!”