Trying to find an explanation of *okie dokie* for my mother, I found this one:
OK started out as part of a humorous fad or game of abbreviating phrases in an outrageous way ( sometimes humorously misspelled to add to the fun) among a few Boston and New York writers, journalists, and wits in the summer of 1838 ( O.K. meant ‘oll korrect’; or A.R. meant ‘Oll Wright’: K.Y. meant ‘know use; N.S.M.J. meant nuf said (a)mong jintlemen’; [N.G. no good, P.D.Q. pretty damn quick] ) and so on. ¹
here² is an interesting link about the origin of ok, needless to say that the “ola kala” theory has the edge in Greece... PierreGaston
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