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OK Day celebrates the day that the abbreviation “O.K.” was first used in a published form on March 23, 1839 when it appeared that day in the Boston Morning Post.
O.K. means “oll korrect” which was back then a popular way to misspell “all correct”.
Just like how in this century misspellings like kitteh, “doggo” and “snek” became popular, how in the past century “cool” was written as “kewl” or “cwl”, humans already loved to misspell words for fun centuries ago. Fads change. Memes change. But how we perform those fads and memes hardly changed ever since we learned to pick up a stick and makes shapes with it in the sand.
And “O.K.” was a fad that lasted longer than it’s original, though it did evolve to “okay”, which probably makes sense typographically.
The OK Day celebration was sreated by Allan Metcalf in 2011
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