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 | | The first recorded use of "OK" in this sense was in the Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, in the sentence "He...would have the 'contribution box', et ceteras, o.k.--all correct--and cause the corks to fly, like sparks, upward." |
 | | Read discounts evidence of earlier popular origins of the word; for instance, a Boston businessman used it in a daily journal in 1815, but in context it does not seem to be used in the sense of "okay, good". |
 | | It is said that Andrew Jackson, one of the founders of the Democratic Party, and the seventh President of the United States, when asked about his usage of the two letter acronym on bills, responded that OK stood for "oll korrect," a phonetic misspelling of "all correct." |
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