I’m sure Cecil addressed this but I’ll be hornswaggled if I can find the damn article. Try doing a search on “okay” and you’ll see what I mean. Anybody remember the answer to this?
-Ed
One I remember was ‘Orl Korrect’.
I’m personally inclined to favor the theory that it comes from the Cherokee word okeh.
here you go: What does “OK” stand for?
Sorry, that was Choctaw, not Cherokee. My bad. I thought of it the instant I hit “Submit,” wouldn’t ya know. How could I have confused them? Choctaw is a Muskhogean language within the Penutian family and Cherokee is an Iroquoian language within the Siouan family. Very different.
Okay. 