Can anyone tell me how 'o.k'.came to mean 'alright' internationally,?

Question

what does the letters stand for?

Answer 1

From the Presidential election of 1840. The Democratic candidate, Martin Van Buren, was nicknamed "The wizard of Kinderhook,"-after "Old Kinderhook" the Hudson Valley village in which he had been born. In reference to this village and Van Burens nickname one of the Democratic groups formed to support him in New York City called itself "The Democratic O.K Club. Other supporters of Van Bruen in New York picked up the term as a sort of slogan.

Answer 2

Here is another version... This is what I was told when I asked the same question of my mom.

There are many dubious explanations for the origin of the term OK. Some date the term OK, which is essentially an agreement or an assent, back to the Native American term “okeh” which means an agreement. Others say the term came from African American slaves. Some connect “OK” to the Greek olla kalla which means "all good."

Actually, these explanations are specious. We have precise written information regarding the origins of OK. It dates from the 1840 Presidential run of Martin Van Buren. The OK club supported him. OK was an abbreviation of Old Kinderhook. Kinderhook, New York was where many of the OK club members were from, thus the work has a double meaning.

OK soon became handy as a simple means for stating agreement. However, it should be noted that the OK club failed to get Martin Van Buren re-elected. The term sprang into public notice because many newspapers that did not support Van Buren began to define OK in negative ways. They used OK to mean Orfully Konfused, or Often Kontradicts, for example. The continued use of the term eventually migrated into not only the American language, but is used around the world as well.

Frequent usage of a word, especially by the media tends to popularize it. Thus we owe OK to the Republican media in the mid 19th century. Abbreviations prior to Van Buren’s election were quite popular, much as they are today. GT was used for "gone to Texas," in much of the print media, and NG meant "no go." It’s hard to know why OK stuck and others did not.

In a world where brevity is often important, OK holds up well. Though technically OK should be written as “okay,” OK is often the spelling of choice. It is a useful text term as well as a common speaking term.

Answer 3

The term OK is used by typesetters and people working in publishing. A manuscript that did not need any changes or corrections would be marked O.K. for Ohne Korrektur (German for 'without correction').

Answer 4

actually, it was a misspelling of the term OLL KORRECT in a Boston Newspaper in 1839 and also was adapted from Old Kinderhook in the 1840 USA Presidential Election. Look it up using the link below

Answer 5

During WW1 messages were sent relating to how many men were killed. 10k meant ten killed, 100k meant hundred killed and so on. so OK meant none killed. Therefore OK was good or alright.

Answer 6

maybe its cuz of the shape someone puts there hand into when the say ok.like the thumb with the index finger?

Answer 7

the letters dont stand for anything particularly just that its acceptable