Oll Korrect

Material für Party-Konversationen: Lernergebnisse aus dem letzten Kinobesuch: SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK. Darin erklärt die von Bradley Cooper gespielte Hauptfigur die Herkunft der Abkürzung OK/okay:

"Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States of America, is from Kinderhook, New York and he was part of a club, a men’s club, called Old Kinderhook. And if you were cool, you were in the club, they’d say, “That guy’s OK.” ‘Cause he was in the Old Kinderhooks."

Laut Wikipedia, erlangte der Begriff nationale Bekanntheit, als er 1840, von den Unterstützern der Demokraten während der Präsidentschaftswahl als Abkürzung für "Old Kinderhook," den Spitznamen von Kandidat Martin Van Buren, verwendet wurde.

"The etymology that most reference works provide today is based on a survey of the word's early history in print: a series of six articles by Allen Walker Read in the journal American Speech in 1963 and 1964 'Vote for OK' was snappier than using his Dutch name." In response, opponents attributed OK, in the sense of "Oll Korrect," to Andrew Jackson's bad spelling.
The country-wide publicity surrounding the election appears to have been a critical event in okay's history, widely and suddenly popularizing it across the United States.
Read had originally proposed an etymology of "okay" in "Old Kinderhook" in 1941. The evidence presented in that article was somewhat sparse, and the connection to "Oll Korrect" not properly elucidated. Various challenges to the etymology were present, e.g. Heflin's 1962 article. However, Read's landmark 1963-1964 papers silenced most of the skepticism. Read's etymology gained immediate acceptance, and is now offered without reservation in most dictionaries."