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Where does the term "ok" come from?

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The truth is: We don't know.

There are some proposals, some more accepted than others, but in the end, we are not certain about any of them.

One of the most accepted proposals is that it comes form an expression "ol korrect" (an intentionally comical misspelling of "all correct").
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