TIL that “OK” is said to be the most widely spoken word in the world, having been adopted as a loanword in mamy languages. However, the etymology of the word is uncertain. (en.m.wikipedia.org)

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Stolen from /u/UralIveGotTonight from Reddit, but it's a real TIL for me.

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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

The most compelling explanation of the etymology that I've seen is that there was a meme where people would deliberately misspell short phrases, and one of the most common ones was to spell "All Correct" as "Oll Korrect"

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[-] fubo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They didn't just have lolspeak; they also had cat memes.

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