why is it "ok" instead of "okay"?

>>69057113
bcz thm dsn't like 2 use that mny lettrs

x thm

>>69057113
Because it sounds more computer like. Like 1010101

>>69057132
>>69057138
but thats not how you spell the word

>>69057113
Because no soldiers were killed during the day.

>>69057148
OK is a word, and even you argue if its just two separate letters next to each other, well why does Radiohead necessarily have to have certain words as their album title?

>>69057173
>>69057145
You guys are gonna have to fill me in on this.

>>69057194
If I'm not wrong, the expression "okay" was used throughout history in wars Britain was involved in to literally inform none of their soldiers had died throughout the day: 0 kills = 0 k = o k = okay

1839, only survivor of a slang fad in Boston and New York c. 1838-9 for abbreviations of common phrases with deliberate, jocular misspellings (such as K.G. for "no go," as if spelled "know go;" N.C. for "'nuff ced;" K.Y. for "know yuse"). In the case of O.K., the abbreviation is of "oll korrect."

Probably further popularized by use as an election slogan by the O.K. Club, New York boosters of Democratic president Martin Van Buren's 1840 re-election bid, in allusion to his nickname Old Kinderhook, from his birth in the N.Y. village of Kinderhook. Van Buren lost, the word stuck, in part because it filled a need for a quick way to write an approval on a document, bill, etc. Spelled out as okeh, 1919, by Woodrow Wilson, on assumption that it represented Choctaw okeh "it is so" (a theory which lacks historical documentation); this was ousted quickly by okay after the appearance of that form in 1929. 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.

The noun is first attested 1841; the verb 1888. Okey-doke is student slang first attested 1932.

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ok computer was them saying Ok Computer, we will use you in the prossess of making all of our music now

>>69057257
Well that doesn;t answer why it is OK and not okay. I guess it doesnt make a difference?

>>69057173
>>69057291
>>69057293
damn...

>>69057355
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=okay

OK is the original word, okay is a derivation

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>>69057113
because of pic related

damn...

>>69057113
k poot

Because the recording equipment they used on the album was manufactured in Tulsa, Oklahoma