Word: kinderhook
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...interested to see the origin of the expression O.K. explained as "Old Kinderhook" and then as "Oil is Korrect." Another possible explanation is that O.K. derived from World War I. Each night, soldiers would report the number of deaths in their group to their superior. Thus O.K. would stand for "0 Killed...
...disagree with Reader Franklin Courtney Ellis' letter regarding the origin of the affirmative expression O.K. [Jan. 19]. He says it stems from the first letters of "Old Kinderhook," the nickname that, according to Mr. Ellis, was given to President Martin Van Buren...
...that the word came from the Choctaw hoke, meaning "Yes, it is." Mathews' preference: that it sprang up first during the presidential campaign of 1840, when Van Buren's supporters organized a mysterious O.K. Club. The initials were those of Van Buren's home town: Old Kinderhook...
...reading the papers designed to dissolve the second United States Bank, he marked them "O.K." (oll korrect). Another explanation points out that when Jackson's henchman, President Martin Van Buren, ran for re-election in 1840, his slogan was OK-the watchcry of his political organization, the Old Kinderhook Club, of New York. Before the election, which William Henry Harrison won, the New Orleans Picayune chortled: "OK. These initials, which in party parlance are understood to mean Oll Korrect, are now used for-Orful Katastrophe...
...MATTHEW ROCKEFELLER Pocantico Hill Kinderhook...