Okay? - Merriam-Webster Ask the Editor

[TheWurdzGame]

OK is recognized all over and is recognized by Wurdz, but rather as Okay! Say the word Okay and you are able to hear the words Oh, Owe, Kay, A....and other words I may have left out. That is all part of The Wurdz Game.

[cornbagel]

Vocal fry cannot be unheard

[CatabolicWaffle]

I love you guys! More please! Also, you should all start doing audio book readings!

[cirogalli]

She doesn't know that O.K. during the 2nd. World War and Vietnam, the acronym O.K. stood up for: 0 K, or zero killed. If a platoon was OK, they had in other words "zero men down".

[kreion]

@cirogalli yes, i knew that too

[DrownedBeliefs]

Fantastic as usual. Loving your hair today also, Kory!

[StoneSentinel]

I love these videos!

[DuctapeMinecraftFork]

this was in my sub box next to a maxim vid.... guess which one i clicked ;)

[DogSneeze]

She's cute.

[oisiaa]

Vocal Fry!

[jasiothemity]

@oisiaa Holy smokes, you're right!

[mostlyharmless11]

@oisiaa CAN'T UNHEAR IT

[GirlCraft]

@oisiaa While I know they do mostly words, this would be nice.

[danxenatro]

@oisiaa Hm?

[ChazMyTube]

Has anyone heard the "legend" that "OK" was originally a teacher's grade of "All Right" which he (or she?) shortened to "AR" ?

I'd heard early on (before I was in Vietnam with 0~zero-K), through repeatedly wrting "AR" the "A" became more rounded becoming a "O" while the "R" was easily mistaken for a "K" resulting in an "OK" grade, meaning the student got tha questions "all right."

Has anyone else heard this theory ?

[NumbFlynn]

Gos is she cute.

[cellarsunmusic]

Thank you for this one. I don't know if there could be any truth to this one - however, I had once been told that 'OK' was also used during the Civil War. I can't remember the background on this (as it was told to me way back when), but essentially during battles the leaders had a type of chalk board and if no soldiers were killed that day - it would read 'O' which meant 'zero' and 'K' for 'killed'. Supposedly then when one saw 'OK' (for zero killed), it was certainly a good day :)

[Nolen87]

Love you guys so much! :D And you're O.K. in my dictionary~