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#731 - FFAF: Why We Say "OK" (And Other Idioms)

The Counsel of Trent

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In the early 19th century, around the 1830s, a common fad was purposely misspelling words and using abbreviations based on those misspellings. One of the most popular ones was OK and OK stood for all correct. So that's what we're going to talk about today here on the Council of Trend Podcast.

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