Why Do We Say O K ?

@Yvonne Smith I've seen it online as well. As a person who grew up in the rural south, I can honestly say I have never ever seen that
particular hand gesture as meaning anything but OK.

 

The politically correct police are getting on my last nerve. I have a "hand gesture" for them.

 

Patrick Mcgoohan used that hand gesture in the series The Prisoner 1967 and the words Be seeing you.

 

Me too. I use them frequently.

 

Hello Lois - lets be dotty together x

 

I probably use OK mostly for agreement with something previously said.
I also use Okay. And, I live in OK and that's ok once you get used to it.
And, there's more, if that's ok. I used to play jacks with my kids especially
my daughter.

 

When I am feeling a bit verbose, I'll say; okey dokey ducky.

 

The expression OK or OKAY dates back farther than most people realize!

Hal

 

Officer: I need your driver’s license.
Driver: Okee Dokee Artichokee
Officer: Cut out the wise cracks
Driver: Okee Dokee Smokey

 

A more likely explanation is that the term originated as an abbreviation of orl korrekt , a jokey misspelling of 'all correct' which was current in the US in the 1830s.

 

What about Okey Dokey as allot of Aussie say in preference to OK

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/okey-dokey

 

I liked the signals between the Astronauts and the NASA engineers:

"Everything's AOK"!

Hal