This Day in History:, 'Ok' Enters National Vernacular.<br />March 23, 1839.<br />The initials saw their <br />first publication in the <br />Boston Morning Post as part of a joke.<br />The initials stood for "oll korrect.".<br />The phrase was a popular <br />slang for the term "all correct.".<br />As with modern youth culture, circles of young, <br />educated people in the 1830s came up with slang <br />misspellings and used abbreviated versions of the terms.<br />"O.K." got picked up by politicians of the time, <br />whose use of the term propelled <br />it into the American vernacular.<br />Today, "O.K." is ubiquitous <br />all over the world
