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Happy Birthday: The word OK completes 175 years

New Delhi: In India, you may have noticed trucks with the signs BLOW HORN OK TATA. OK is a word normally used to signify "all is well".‘OK' is the all-purpose American expression that became an



Editor Charles Gordon Greene was the man who gave birth to OK.

Charles Gordon wrote in his edition of March 23:

The “Chairman of the Committee on Charity Lecture Bells,” is one of the deputation, and perhaps if he should return to Boston, via Providence, he of the Journal, and his train-band, would have his “contribution box,” et ceteras, o.k.—all correct—and cause the corks to fly, like sparks, upward.

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