>I've seen OK long before before Okay. Supposedly Abraham Lincoln created OK from the initials of "Oll Korrect" but I don't believe it.
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>You are young, aren't you? For a retired guy, I mean.
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>>So, why does MS spell Okay as "Ok"?

I always though that Martin Van Buren created it from his estate in New York, "Old Kinderhook"

I decided to google it and came across

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_250