Etymologie, Etimología, Étymologie, Etimologia, Etymology, (griech.) etymología, (lat.) etymologia, (esper.) etimologio
US Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Estados Unidos de América, États-Unis d'Amérique, Stati Uniti d'America, United States of America, (esper.) Unuigintaj Statoj de Ameriko
Abkürzung, Abreviatura, Abréviation, Abbreviazione, Abbreviation, (esper.) mallongigoj

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Abbreviation (W3)

(E?)(L?) http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbreviation


abbreviations
Abbreviations

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Abbreviations.com is the world's largest and most comprehensive directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms on the Internet.

On a daily basis people are exposed to and baffled by new, ever-growing shorthand terms where occasionally a single term has several meanings and it is the context that determines how to interpret the utterances. In addition, one might need to have a list of acronyms or abbreviations that relates to a specific subject. It might be a student that looks for a list of terms in physiology, a businessman that needs to prepare a lecture on international business or a laboratory that would like to print an abbreviated form of the Periodic Table.

Abbreviations.com answers those needs by supplying an extensive directory and a powerful search engine that provides comprehensive definition results for a specific term, grouped by categories. It also provides the ability to browse a list of terms that relates to a specific subject.

Abbreviations.com holds hundreds of thousands of entries organized by a large variety of categories from computing and the Web to governmental, medicine and business and it is expanding daily.

Browse the Web's Largest Acronyms & Abbreviations Resource


acronymfinder
Acronym-Finder
Database with Abbreviations, Acronyms, Initialisms and their meanings
Acronymgenerator

(E?)(L1) http://www.acronymfinder.com/

With more than 575,000 (07.12.2007) human-edited entries, Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. Combined with the Acronym Attic, Acronym Finder contains more than 4 million acronyms and abbreviations. New! You can also search for more than 850,000 US and Canadian postal codes. more...


Verzeichnis englischer Abkürzungen. Auf dieser Webseite werden englische Abkürzungen gesammelt und ihre Langform erklärt. Kurztest: Für ECU werden 22 Begriffe gefunden, unter anderem East Carolina University, European Currency Unit und Extreme CloseUp.
Unter den Definitionen befinden sich auch viele deutsche wie z.B. FDH "Friss die Hälfte" und Akronyme aus anderen Sprachen.

Acronym Finder

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Acronym Finder Search

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(E?)(L?) http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?acronym=ASAP


An "acronym" is a word formed from each of the first letters of a longer name or description. For example, "North Atlantic Treaty Organization" = "NATO".

(E?)(L?) http://www.acronymfinder.com/buzzgen.asp

Acronym Finder Random Systematic Buzz Phrase Projector Acronym Generator (AFRSBPPAG)


acronymsearch
Acronym-Search

(E6)(L?) http://www.acronymsearch.com/

Our database is updated every couple of days. There are over 50,000 acronyms and abbreviations in many categories. Including chat, computer, military, finance, accounting, airports, sports, classified, and more.

FAQ Topics: What is an Acronym? | Acronym Grammar | Acronym Capitalization | Acronym Pluralizations

Misc Topics: Computer Acronyms | Space Acronyms | State and Country Codes


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cia
Central Intelligence Agency
The World Fact Book
Abbreviations

(E?)(L?) https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/appendix/appendix-a.html




Erstellt: 2012-08

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delorie
V.E.R.A. - Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms

(E?)(L1) http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/vera/vera.html




(E?)(L?) http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/vera/vera_28.html

1. About...
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms
V.E.R.A. is a free list of acronyms all of which are used in the field of computing.
V.E.R.A. is primarily meant to be used as an online reference, although some efforts have been taken to make its TeX output looking acceptable. However I doubt that somebody would like to print it. The original release compiled to 250 pages.
This edition is a special contribution to the GNU project similar to the version 6.0 of V.E.R.A. It contains approximately 9203 acronyms.
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DVD
Etymologie et traduction de l'acronyme "DVD" (W2)

Anscheinend ist man sich nicht ganz einig, ob "DVD" nun die Abkürzung für "Digital Video Disk" oder für "Digital Versatile Disk" ist ("versatile" = "vielseitig", "flexibel"). Ursprünglich war sie wohl zur Speicherung von Filmen ("Video") konzipiert worden - aber warum sollte man nicht auch andere Daten darauf speichern. Bit ist Bit - ob als Film, als Musikstück oder als Datenbankeintrag. Also wurde aus der Videodisk eine Universaldisk ("Versatile").

(E?)(L?) http://people.itu.int/~bloud/dvd.htm


(E?)(L?) http://www.acronymfinder.com/


(E?)(L?) http://www.arrakis.es/~aikido/interdic/


(E?)(L?) http://coverage.cnet.com/Resources/Info/Glossary/Terms/dvd.html


(E?)(L?) http://tis.consilium.eu.int/utfwebtis/frames/introfsEN.htm


(E?)(L?) http://eurodic.ip.lu/


(E?)(L?) http://www.itu.int/search/wais/Termite/


(E?)(L?) http://www7.itu.int/sancho/


(E?)(L?) http://server1.onelook.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi


(E?)(L?) https://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/DVD.html

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Les quatre grandes bases terminologiques suivantes ne recensent que l'expression "digital video disk" pour "DVD".
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Ensuite, de nombreux glossaires offrent les 2 possibilités ("versatile" et "video").
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Une référence intéressante indique qu'historiquement, l'acronyme "DVD" a d'abord signifié "digital video disc" et que la notion de polyvalence ("versatility") est venue ensuite: "Originally referred to as "digital video discs", these high-capacity optical disks..."
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Je pense que c'est là l'explication de la double traduction de cet acronyme car l'objectif initial était de proposer des films cinématographiques sur vidéodisques (dont certains formats et procédés existaient longtemps avant l'apparition du DVD).
Actuellement, la technique du DVD n'est pas encore vraiment cristallisée puisqu'on a passé du "DVD" simple couche / simple face (4,7 GB) au DVD double couche / simple face (8,5 GB) et maintenant au DVD double couche / double face (17 GB). IBM a mis au point en laboratoire un DVD à 10 couches dont je vous laisse calculer la capacité... L'application la plus courante et la plus populaire est évidemment celle des films de cinéma (en codage MPEG-x) et je pense qu'elle le restera (car on peut consulter plus facilement et ponctuellement des encyclopédies et bases textuelles en ligne).
L'introduction de l'unique option (de l'industrie privée anglo-saxonne) "versatile" / "polyvalent" dans le Vocabulaire informatique de l'administration française me paraît donc avoir fait l'objet d'une décision prématurée et discutable car n'ayant pas fait l'objet d'une concertation avec les organisations de normalisation internationales compétentes. (D. Bloud)


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govdocs
GovSpeak
A Guide to Government Acronyms & Abbreviations
Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government

(E?)(L?) http://members.cox.net/govdocs/govspeak.html

An Excellent page maintained by Kelly Smith at the Social Sciences and Humanities Library of UCSD. When possible, these links go directly to the official website for the agency or program listed. For more comprehensive coverage of military-related acronyms, please check the sources listed on the Military Acronyms and Glossaries page.


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hanford
The Abbreviation & Acronym Directory

(E?)(L?) http://www.hanford.gov/communication/acronym/
The Abbreviation & Acronym Directory is only a partial listing of Hanford Site acronyms and abbreviations and is not intended to replace other reference materials. It is intended to provide definitions that are not available elsewhere.

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infoplease
Common Abbreviations

(E?)(L1) http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0775271.html
Am 03.09.2004 waren folgende Abkürzungen erklärt:

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marshall
The Canonical Abbreviation/Acronym List

(E?)(L?) http://marshall.freeshell.org/abbrev.html


Erstellt: 2010-03

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O

OK als Verb (W3)

Am 02.11.2009 sah ich "OK" zum ersten mal als Verb "to OK".

In der Überschrift "ICANN OKs International Domains" findet man es in der 3. Person Singular.

(E?)(L?) http://www.pcworld.com/article/181138/icann_oks_international_domains_the_pros_and_cons.html?tk=rss_news

ICANN OKs International Domains: The Pros and Cons
Paul Suarez
Nov 1, 2009 5:53 pm

ICANN's approval of non-Latin character domains undoubtedly is a game-changing decision in the history of the World Wide Web. With scheduled to start popping up in the middle of next year, many people are debating if this digital support for more distinctly international sites balances with potential security threats and fragmentation of the Internet.

Here are a few pros and cons to consider as we move away from the traditional ASCII based-Web.
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O. K.
O.K.
OK
Okay (W1)

Das Wort "okay" = "alles in Ordnung" ist wohl das weltweit bekannteste Wort. Es geht zurück auf die Abkürzung "o.k.".

Die vielen Erklärungsversuche zur Herkunft von "OK" bzw. "okay" sind jedoch alles andere als okay. Sie sind zwar alle recht interessant, aber "die eine" Erklärung scheint es nicht zu geben.

Die Abkürzung wird u.a. auf "all correct" zurückgeführt. Zumindest ist dies die mittlerweile allgemein anerkannte Version. Der amerikanische Linguist Allen Walker Read (1906-2002) hat sie zurückverfolgt bis zum Jahr 1839. In dieser Zeit machten sich die Bostoner Zeitungen einen Spass daraus, Überschriften abzukürzen, um sie dann zu erklären. Natürlich wurden auch Kuriosa eingebaut. Und so wurde auch die Abkürzung "o.k." für "all correct" vorgestellt. Dabei war "o.k. gleich zweifach fehlerhaft; weder das "o" noch das "k" waren richtig. Andererseits hätte "a.c." ausgesprochen nichts mehr mit dem gesprochenen "all correct" zu tun gehabt.

Nun denn, 1839 erblickte also "o.k." das Licht der Welt. Die erste bekannte Erscheinung von "O.K." war am 23. März 1839 in der Boston Morning Post. Dies soll der einstige Text gewesen sein:

"... perhaps if he should return to Boston, via Providence, he of the Journal, and his train-band, would have the "contribution box," et ceteras, o. k. - all correct - and cause the corks to fly, like sparks, upward."

Bereits 1840 entdeckte es Martin van Buren als "Wahlkampfhelfer". Er war nämlich in "Kinderhook", New York, geboren und hatte den Spitznamen "Old Kinderhook". Das aus Boston importierte "o.k." bot sich also als Wahlkampfslogan an, der zum Ausdruck brachte "Old Kinderhook" = all correct". Von nun an war "o.k." nicht mehr aufzuhalten. (Dennoch verlor Martin van Buren den Wahlkampf.)

Dass es neben dieser (mittlerweile allgemein anerkannten) Deutung weitere Herleitungsversuche gibt, soll die folgende Liste zeigen:

In den 1830 Jahre sollen in Bostoner Zeitschriften eine große Anzahl von Abkürzungen aufgetaucht sein. Jede Aussage wurde mit Abkürzungen verziert und was sich nicht reimte machte man reimend, d.h. es waren auch Abkürzungen in Umlauf, die auf absichtlichen oder unabsichtlichen Falschschreibungen beruhten. So stand etwa "N.G." für "no go", "A.R." für "all right", "K.G." für "know go", "O.W." für "oll wright" und "O.K." für "oll korrect" für "all correct". Als einige der wenigen Abkürzungen überlebte "O.K.".

Eventuell waren es Zufälle, die das Überleben von "O.K." bewirkten.

"OK" geht laut James McCabe in wiwi 15/2002 auf den "nickname" "Old Kinderhook" des US Präsidenten Van Buren zurück.

So wohnte etwa der achte Präsident der USA "Martin Van Buren" in einer Heimstätte namens "Old Kinderhook". Während der Präsidentschaftswahl im Jahr 1840, wurden die Unterstützer von Van Buren als "OK Club" genannt mit dem Bezug zu "Old Kinderhook" und in Anspielung auf die noch in Umlauf befindliche Abkürzung für "all correct". Durch den Wahlkampf wurde die Abkürzung sehr populär.

"yourdictionary": Most frequently spoken word on the Planet: "O.K." Still the most popular word in languages around the world.

Eine weiter intereassante Geschichte zur Herkunft von "OK" hörte ich am 31.10.2002 in der morgendlichen Kolumne von SWR2:

Das berühmte T-Modell bei Ford unterlag einer strengen Endkontrolle. Bevor es als das Band verlies und zum Verkauf freigegeben wurde wurde es intensiv geprüft. Ein langjähriger Prüfer, der bis zum Ende dieses Modells für diese Freigabe verantwortlich zeichnete war "Oskar Krause". Er signierte die Freigabe mit seinen Initialen "OK". Mit dem Auto für das Kürzel für Qualität in die Welt.

Auf der angegebenen Seite findet man auch einen Hinweis dazu:

"Oskar Krause", c'est un personnage à la recherche de son identité perdue, dont Wim Wenders conte l'histoire; ouvrier en bout de chaîne chez Ford, il tamponne les voitures qu'il vérifie de ses initiales, "OK".

Anderer Ansatz: schon seit Generation griechischgeplagter Schüler hält sich das Gerücht, daß "OK" schon viel älter ist und eine Abkürzung für "holos kalos" ist (der Laut "h" wird nicht als Buchstabe geschrieben, sondern als eine Art Akzent, einem Spiritus), was wiederum "alles gut" bedeutet.

Es hat auf jeden Fall nix mit irgendwelchen "Otto Kerns" zu tun, die die Endkontrolle in irgendwelchen Fabriken machten.

weitere Erklärungsversuche: The US astronauts have extended it to "A-OK", meaning "absolutely OK".

Etymology: Urban legend has it that Andrew Jackson, with a dubious grasp of written English, spelled "all correct" as "oll korrect".

Another assigns "OK" to a World War II body-count system which included "0K" ("zero + K"), meaning "zero killed", implying that everything is all right.

But "OK" entered English well before the 1940s. Allen Read claims that the word entered American English in the Boston Morning Post in March of 1839 during a fad of acronyms and abbreviations, including "OFM" ("Our First Men"), "NG" ("no go"), and "SP" ("small potatoes").

Apparently, it was the scenesters' jargon of the time. As scenesters tried to establish an even more "elite" vocabulary for the in-crowd, facetious spellings began to appear, with "NG" turning to "KG" ("Know Go"). "OK" came from that silly spelling "Oll Korrect".

By autumn, 1840, the term had traveled from New York to New Orleans via the popular press, and during the Van Buren campaign, "OK" was used to take advantage of the acronym game to refer! to "Old Kinderhook", an extension of the name of Van Buren's birthplace in the Hudson Valley, "Kinderhook".

Mir gefällt die Geschichte "Otto Kaisers", der seine Inititalen mit Kreide auf die Trucks nach der Endkontrolle in den Fordwerken in Detroit geschrieben hat. (Kaiser war übrigens angeblich ein Österreicher.)

(A: roge)

Folgender Hinweis eines Besuchers scheint mir recht glaubwürdig zu sein:

Im amerikanische Unabhängigkeitskrieg 1775-1783 übernahmen militärische Einheiten die Gewohnheit der Seefahrt, dass der Befehlsempfänger den erhaltenen Befehl zu wiederholen hatte.

Bei der Seefahrt war das z.B. so, daß auf den Befehl "Hart Backbord!" der Steuermann antwortete "Ay-ay, hart Backbord!"

Bei den am Boden kämpfenden Truppen allerdings setzte sich diese Art der akustischen Kontrolle nur schleppend durch, die "Amis" waren und sind mundfaul.

So entschied man sich dazu, daß der Soldat einen erhaltenen Befehl nur mit "Order kept" ("Befehl erhalten") quittieren mußte.

Durch die Mundfaulheit wurde diese Standardantwort recht schnell so umgesetzt, daß der Soldat nur noch die Anfangsbuchstaben zu sagen hatte, nämlich das "OK" - was sich ja dann allmählich weltweit als ein Zustimmungsbegriff durchgesetzt hat.

(A: mika)

"BBC - h2g2" Insults The Legends of the Word "OK" ("okay")

Am 15.11.2006 las ich eine weitere Variante:

"o. K." soll aus Deutschland ausgewandert sein, wo es im Druckergewerbe für Druckfreigabe "ohne Korrektur" stand.

(E1)(L1) http://www.ahlabellelangue.com/p3.php

Question: de Maxime : quelle est donc l'origine de l'expression "OK" ?

Réponse: On l'attribue à la mauvaise orthographe du 7e Président des Etats Unis, Andrew Jackson, qui aurait écrit, pour dire que tout allait bien : "oll korrect". On en aurait donc fait des initiales moqueuses mais... internationales à présent!

Question: Manuel B. de Dublin (Irlande) me donne une autre explication aux initiales "OK": elles viendraient du comptage des morts par les Américains après les batailles. Exemple: "2 kills" qui s'écrivait donc "2K". Quand il n' y avait pas de mort et que, donc, tout allait bien on écrivait "zero killed", soit "0K"...

Réponse: Quelqu'un d'entre vous pourrait-il confirmer l'une ou l'autre de ces deux explications? Le suspens est terrible!

Question: Stephane L. de Belgique nous donne une autre explication de "OK": "ces deux initiales seraient le mot-code donné aux pilotes alliés pour aller bombarder l'Allemagne sans survoler la France mais en passant au dessus de Copenhague, c'est-à-dire dans leur langue "over Kobenhaven", d'où "OK"."

Réponse: Je trouve cette explication un peu tordue mais ... on ne sait jamais! Si quelqu'un en a une autre...


(E?)(L?) http://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/date/2008/02/29


(E6)(L1) http://www.anglizismenindex.de/

okay, O.K.


(E?)(L?) http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/mcintyre/blog/2010/11/ok_by_me.html

OK by me

Nineteenth-century American humor relied heavily on misspelling. As literacy became widespread, it was inevitable that skill in reading and writing would become markers of social class and background. Bad spellers in journalism and literature, usually rustics, provided a somewhat-better-educated middle class with amusement and a confirmation of their own superior status.

It is to this tradition that we owe the most substantial American contribution to the English language, the English word most universally understood and used: "OK".
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(E?)(L?) http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/C37


(E?)(L?) http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A704521

... The Legends of the Word OK (okay)
Every day people use the word "OK". But where did it come from? In truth, no one really knows for sure, but there are several different theories as to where it originates.
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(E4)(L2) http://www.biography.com/find/article.jsp?aid=9453042&search=


(E?)(L1) http://www.cigarettespedia.com/

Zigarettenmarken: O.K. | OK | OK Premium


(E?)(L?) https://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/o.k

"O.K.", loc. adv. "O.K.", loc. adv.

Étymol. et Hist. 1. 1869 (L'Ingénieur, loc. cit.); 2. 1931 interj. (L. Durtain, Conquêtes du monde. Captain O.K., 16 et n. ds Höfler Anglic.). Empr. à l'anglo-amér. "O.K." att. pour la 1re fois en 1839 comme abrév. de "all correct" "tout à fait correct", "bien" interprété "oll korrect" selon une mode d'abrév. fondées sur des interprétations graph. fantaisistes alors très en vogue sur la côte est des États-Unis (p. ex. "O.W." pour "all right" "tout juste" interprété "oll wright"), notamment à Boston où "O.K." est d'abord att.
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(E?)(L?) https://web.archive.org/web/20180426030621/http://www.djfl.de/entertainment/djfl/

Okay


(E?)(L?) http://elcastellano.org/news/%C2%BFde-d%C3%B3nde-viene-la-expresi%C3%B3n-ok

22/03/2015 - ¿De dónde viene la expresión "OK"?


(E1)(L1) http://etimologias.dechile.net/?OK


(E?)(L?) http://derstandard.at/1318633/Woher-kommt-eigentlich-

Woher kommt eigentlich ...?
"O.K.", "leiwand" und andere Wörter mit schleierhaftem Ursprung - eine etymologische Hitparade, möglicherweise Teil 1

Zu den meistgestellten Fragen, die uns von UserInnen eingesandt werden, gehört Woher kommt eigentlich das Wort .... Die Palette reicht dabei von der schlichten Bitte um Erklärung eines Wortursprungs über die Enträtselung von Abkürzungen (IKEA etwa ist immer noch vielen ein Mysterium) bis hin zu sprachphilosophischen Betrachtungen.
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(E?)(L?) http://www.dictionnaire-quebecois.com/definitions-o.html

"O.K. d'abord": Expression propre au langage populaire québécois, utilisée pour souligner l'approbation à quelque chose et qui signifie : "ça va comme ça" ou encore "dans ces conditions, j'accepte".


(E?)(L?) http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=OK

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"Okey-doke" is student slang first attested 1932. Greek immigrants to America who returned home early 20c. having picked up U.S. speech mannerisms were known in Greece as "okay-boys", among other things.
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(E1)(L1) http://www.expressio.fr/expressions/ok.php


(E?)(L?) http://www.federation-anarchiste.org/ml/numeros/1085/article_9.html


(E?)(L?) http://www.fernsehserien.de/index.php?abc=A

Alles o.k., Corky (USA 1989-1993) | California Okay (USA 1977) | K.O. - O.K. (D 1977-1980) | O.K. Crackerby! (USA 1965-1966) | Okay S.I.R. (D 1973-1974)


(E?)(L?) http://www.fragenohneantwort.de/fragen/260/ok/

O.k. - Was bedeutet die Abkürzung o.k. und wo kommt sie her?


(E?)(L1) http://www.fremdwoerter.de/


(E?)(L?) https://books.google.de/books?id=MXfzNTbHJAwC&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&dq=Kessler+okay&source=bl&ots=WwykGzAEcl&sig=ShuhMz2y4-gBUMAKCdujJodNxTQ&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAGoVChMI1przr5-zyAIVxRYsCh3tZggk#v=onepage&q=Kessler%20okay&f=false

Kessler 2010 Okay - Die Bedeutung eines Wortes zwischen Schriftlichkeit und Mündlichkeit


(E?)(L?) http://www.h2g2.com/


(E?)(L?) http://hotforwords.com/most-common-word-in-the-world/

Most common word in the world!


(E?)(L?) https://illinois.edu/blog/view/25/48219

Happy birthday "OK": the world's most-popular word turns 172

Mar 22, 2011 6:30 pm by debaron@illinois.edu

By rights, "OK" should not have become the world's most popular word. It was first used as a joke in the Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, a shortening of the phrase "oll korrect", itself an incorrect spelling of "all correct". The joke should have run its course, and "OK" should have been forgotten, just like we forgot the other initialisms appearing in newspapers at the time, such as "O.F.M", "Our First Men", "A.R.", "all right", "O.W.", "oll wright", "K.G.", "know good", and "K.Y.", "know yuse". Instead, here we are celebrating OK's 172nd birthday, wondering why the word became a lexical universal instead of a one day wonder.
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(E?)(L?) http://www.kinofenster.de/filmeundthemen/filmsuche.html/O

Okay (Dänemark 2002)


(E2)(L2) http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000457.php

READ NOT OK.
The recent obituaries for Allen Walker Read focused on his claims for the etymology of "O.K." as an acronym for "Old Kinderhook" [or "oll korrect"]; he promoted these claims so assiduously that they have made their way into most dictionaries....


(E?)(L?) http://www.languagemonitor.com/no-of-words/ok

Most Recognized Word on the Planet: OK or O.K. or Okay

U.S. President Martin Van Buren (A.D. 1837-1841) was born in "Old Kinderhook", New York. His nickname, "Old Kinderhook", was incorporated into his campaign slogan ("Old Kinderhook is O.K.") and O.K. Democratic Clubs sprung up around the young nation. Van Buren was a founding member of the Democratic Party. (He was overwhelmingly defeated by the Whigs in his re-election attempt in 1840.)
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"o. K." explained, 1841 George Thompson


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[Bapopik : Fwd: O.K. sign in Ecuador] Jesse Sheidlower


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(E?)(L?) https://lithub.com/which-one-is-correct-o-k-ok-ok-or-okay/

Which one is correct: "O.K.", "OK", "ok", or "okay"?
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In honor of the 182nd anniversary of the first-ever appearance in print of "O.K." (in The Boston Morning Post) I am here to start an internet copyediting war. As you can see, the original "O.K." was very clearly an acronym, in this case of "oll korrect", a popular slang misspelling of "all correct". As with most language that drifts into common usage, the origins of "O.K." slowly receded from collective awareness and the word began to assume different shapes and sizes: the slightly more streamlined and dashing "OK"; the drawling and onomatopoetic "okay"; the abrupt and minimalist "ok".
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Where does "OK" come from?

Written by Stan Carey

Last month I looked at the variant spelling alright. Its synonym "OK" is a more complicated animal in some ways. It’s one of the most common words in English and has been borrowed into many other languages. Yet its origins are peculiar and have attracted a huge amount of speculation. "OK", let’s dive in.

"OK" comes in many forms, "OK" and "okay" being the most popular. Alongside them there is "O.K." and "o.k.", which are "O.K." too, though in less formal contexts the full stops may seem fussy or old-fashioned. Lowercase "ok" is not suitable for formal prose but is perfectly "okay" in casual contexts. "Mkay" is common in speech, as is the abbreviation "K" or "k" – sometimes spelled out as "kay" or "’kay". And there are rarer forms like "okey", "okeh", and "oke".

Historically there was much uncertainty and debate about where "OK" came from. Was it from Choctaw "okeh", meaning "it is" or "it is so", or from a mishearing of Scots "och aye"? How about French "au quai" "to the dock", or the Haiti port "Aux Cayes"? Finnish "oikea" means "correct" – could that be it? Or Greek "óla kalá" "all good"? Was it short for "Old Kinderhook", the nickname of US politician Martin Van Buren?

There have been so many suggestions and hypotheses that there’s a lengthy Wikipedia page devoted to all the possibilities. And while each origin story has had its supporters, they all lack persuasive evidence – except one, the case for which was laid out in a series of articles in the 1960s by the American etymologist Allen Walker Read. He showed that "OK" was based on a running joke among journalists in Boston in the 19th century, a kind of fad for abbreviating certain phrases and sometimes misspelling them, like "NS" for "nuff said" and "OW" for "oll wright2 ("all right"). In a similar vein, "OK" was short for "oll korrect" ("all correct").

Most of these abbreviations were short-lived, but "OK" bucked the trend and took on a life of its own. Why it survived when others didn’t is a more complicated story, but it was helped by the "Old Kinderhook" connection – campaigners used it in political slogans for Van Buren, newspapers kept playing with it, and the public found it useful and adopted it. From there it spread around the US and beyond. The whole story is recounted in Allan Metcalf’s book "OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word".

"OK" is everywhere now – in daily speech, novels, emails and academic texts, in polls and signs, in magazine and song titles. We say "OK Google" to address our phone’s virtual assistant. We use it to convey acceptance, delight, scepticism, decisiveness, and countless other states of mind. And that’s A - "OK".


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(E?)(L?) http://mentalfloss.com/article/50042/whats-real-origin-ok

What's the Real Origin of "OK"?
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The truth about OK, as Allan Metcalf, the author of OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word, puts it, is that it was "born as a lame joke perpetrated by a newspaper editor in 1839." This is not just Metcalf's opinion or a half remembered story he once heard, as most OK stories are. His book is based in the thorough scholarship of Allen Walker Read, a Columbia professor who for years scoured historical sources for evidence about OK, and published his findings in a series of journal articles in 1963 to 1964.
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The Hilarious History of 'OK'

The English language's most successful export is a joke
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"okayism" Steven M. Deyo


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O.K.: Abkürzung für "Ottfried König", Medailleur zu Moskau 1718 - 1724; auch: K.O.


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sein O.K. / Okay geben | Okay, Okay! | Das ist okay / o.k. | Okidok! Okidoki! | Okidok! Okidoki!


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"OK" or "O.K." "okay"


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Houston, Whitney: It's not right but it's okay


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"O.K.", also accepted as "OK", is another of the several common English words whose etymologies have been hotly debated. ...


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It's Okay (One Blood) - by The Game feat Junior Reid


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I'm Not Okay (I Promise) - by My Chemical Romance
Okay - by Nivea w/ Lil Jon & YoungBloodZ


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It's Not Right But It's Okay - by Whitney Houston


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It's O.K. - by The Beach Boys


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"B-Okay": One step below A-Okay, meaning not perfect, but you're alright.


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OKAY | Okay Abbott | okay bye | Okay bye! | OKAY cool | okay dokey | Okay great | okay hodges | Okay Jared | okay kay | okay kinds | Okay Krista | okay looking | Okay Mom | okay pants | | okay then | okay then... | Okay! | okay, fine | Okay, Steve | okay, terrific | Okay... | okay? | okaya | okaybye


(E1)(L1) http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/OK--85357622.html

25 February 2010 - Words and Their Stories: Where Did 'OK' Come From? - A look at what may be the most commonly used word in the world.


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October 24, 2002 - Allen Walker Read / 'O.K.': A tribute to a linguistic sleuth who died at the age of 96; he devoted his life to tracking down the origins of American speech - including "O.K."


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Warum sagen wir eigentlich "O.K."?


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"Okay", auch "OK", "O.K." ist ein umgangssprachliches Wort aus dem Amerikanischen Englisch das so viel wie "(alles) in Ordnung" bedeutet (Abk. i. O.).

Der Ausdruck gilt als das bekannteste Wort der Welt und wird in verschiedensten Sprachen - auch im Deutschen - umgangssprachlich verwendet. Die Herkunft dieses Wortes wurde lange von Sprachwissenschaftlern erforscht und diskutiert, bis der US-amerikanische Etymologe Allen Walker Read 1963 und 1964 in einer Reihe von Artikeln in der Zeitschrift American Speech nachweisen konnte, dass es sich um eine Art Sprachwitz handelt: eine absichtliche Falschschreibung bzw. mehr phonemische Schreibung ("oll korrekt") der Abkürzung für "all correct" (wörtlich "alles richtig"), in der eben nichts richtig ist. Es existiert jedoch eine große Anzahl von Volksetymologien.
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Most frequently spoken word on the Planet:
O.K. Still one of the few examples where a person's initial's live on to become a word. (In this case, antebellum president Martin Van Buren, who was born in Old Kinderhook, New York; his nickname, Old Kinderhook, quickly evolved to O.K.) An alternate derivation suggests a play on the dialectal pronunciations of "all correct" by editors of the Boston Post in 1839


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Most frequently spoken word on the Planet:
1. OK Still the most popular word in languages around the world. "OK" originated in a joke in the 1830's, spelled "oll korrekt" in Boston newspapers, the joke being, both words were incorrect. It became so popular, that it was soon abbreviated to simply "O. K." Despite its popularity, the word would have fallen by the wayside had not Martin van Buren, called "Old Kinderhook" for being born in Kinderhook, N.Y. used it in his presidential reelection campaign of 1840. So don't "misunderestimate" the impact of presidential usage on the growth of our vocabulary. It is also spelled "okay."
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(E?)(L1) https://www.yourdictionary.com/about/topten2002.html

Most frequently spoken word on the Planet:
1. OK Still the most popular word in languages around the world. "OK" originated in a joke in the 1830's, spelled "oll korrekt" in Boston newspapers, the joke being, both words were incorrect. It became so popular, that it was soon abbreviated to simply "O. K." Despite its popularity, the word would have fallen by the wayside had not Martin van Buren, called "Old Kinderhook" for being born in Kinderhook, N.Y. used it in his presidential reelection campaign of 1840. So don't "misunderestimate" the impact of presidential usage on the growth of our vocabulary. It is also spelled "okay."


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Oll korrect

"OK" (= okay) war ursprünglich die Abkürzung für den verballhornten englischen Ausdruck "oll korrect" - Stimmt's?

Stimmt. Jedenfalls ist dies die von den meisten Anglisten als gültig anerkannte etymologische Ableitung. Sie geht auf Allen Walker Read zurück, einen angesehenen Professor der Columbia University, der sie am 19. Juli 1941 im Saturday Review of Literature zum erstenmal veröffentlichte.
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Metcalf, Allan
Ok
The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word

Oxford University Press, USA, 9780195377934, 210pp.
Publication Date: November 9, 2010
ISBN-13 9780195377934

(E?)(L?) https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780195377934

It is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, more common than an infant's first word "ma" or the ever-present beverage "Coke". It was even the first word spoken on the moon. It is "OK" - the most ubiquitous and invisible of American expressions, one used countless times every day. Yet few of us know the hidden history of "OK" - how it was coined, what it stood for, and the amazing extent of its influence.

Allan Metcalf, a renowned popular writer on language, here traces the evolution of America's most popular word, writing with brevity and wit, and ranging across American history with colorful portraits of the nooks and crannies in which "OK" survived and prospered. He describes how "OK" was born as a lame joke in a newspaper article in 1839 - used as a supposedly humorous abbreviation for "oll korrect" (ie. "all correct") - but should have died a quick death, as most clever coinages do. But "OK" was swept along in a nineteenth-century fad for abbreviations, was appropriated by a presidential campaign (one of the candidates being called "Old Kinderhook"), and finally was picked up by operators of the telegraph. Over the next century and a half, it established a firm toehold in the American lexicon, and eventually became embedded in pop culture, from the "I'm OK, You're OK" of 1970's transactional analysis, to Ned Flanders' absurd "Okeley Dokeley " Indeed, "OK" became emblematic of a uniquely American attitude, and is one of our most successful global exports.

Allan Metcalf is Professor of English at MacMurray College and Executive Secretary of the American Dialect Society. He is the author of many other books on language, including most recently Presidential Voices: "Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Bush" (2004). He participates in the "Lingua Franca" blog of the Chronicle of Higher Education.


(E?)(L?) http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2010/11/book_notes_alla.html

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In his own words, here is Allan Metcalf's Book Notes music playlist for his book, "OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word":

OK. Is there any other expression so common, so necessary to everyday dealings, as "OK"? It's the greatest word ever invented in America and our most successful export, known and used around the world.

You could write a book about "OK". I just did – it's called "OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word", published by Oxford University Press in October 2010. And "OK" is indeed the greatest. From its awkward beginning in an 1839 Boston newspaper as a dumb joke (abbreviation for "all correct"), through a series of improbable accidents, "OK" managed to overcome its humble origin to become arguably the most important word in our language.

And yet, though it expresses a distinctive American attitude and is on everyone's lips, "OK" is rare in music. That's because "OK" is, frankly, not very musical. It's just . . . "OK".

Music stirs the emotions — happiness, heartbreak, enthusiasm, despair, love, lust, hate. In the words that go with the music, you want something that expresses emotion, or something that soothes it. But "OK" is passionless, neither exciting nor calm, just neutral. It doesn't imply either joy or sorrow, agitation or tranquility, only that something is satisfactory. Even "yes" and "no" have more passion than "OK". That's why we use "OK" so often, just to get through the routine business of the day. Very few of us are passionate all the time.

But there are musicians who discover musical potential in "OK". Here is a baker's dozen of them, each "OK" in their own way. And it's appropriate to get going with an "OK", go!
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(E?)(L?) https://www.oxford.co.za/book/9780195377934-ok-the-improbable-story-of-america-s-greatest-word-h#.XP9H0PZuIkU


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