OK. Wait, Where Does OK Even Come From?

<p>Across the world, there is now a word that binds most languages together, whether you speak Vietnamese, French, Russian, Hebrew or Arabic. It is the most basic the English language gets, the most spoken word on the planet and the word used to agree on pretty much everything. Ok.</p> <p>Written strangely and sounding alien, it is no surprise that it remains not fully known where the word comes from. Hopefully, in this article, you&rsquo;ll get a hypothesis on where it all started.</p> <p>The first and the most widely accepted argument was developed by linguist Allen Walker Read, who in 1964 started exploring old American newspapers and documents in a quest to find the root of the word.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/language-lab/ok-wait-where-does-ok-even-come-from-178ccebec94"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>