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To: jhild who wrote (14118)	10/29/1998 9:58:00 PM
From: jpmac	Respond to of 71178

I heard it was abbreviated slang for "if you don't like it, meet me at the corral."

To: jhild who wrote (14118)	10/29/1998 10:56:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

There is also the theory that it derives from the Choctaw, okeh. Woodrow Wilson believed this version and wrote okeh on papers he approved. When asked why he didn't use the popular O.K., he responded, "Because it is wrong." The Old Kinderhook origin was used when the Tammany Democrats formed the Democratic OK Club. Van Buren was born in Kinderhook, N.Y. According to one of my Word History books, the most popular and likely story is that for some weird reason, journalists in the 1820s wrote under the persona of country bumpkins and intentionally misspelled things like "no use' which became "know yuse"--- and "All correct" became "oll korrect" or.....