Made in America: The Ridiculous History of 'OK'The spread of "OK" shows how important an all-purpose word can be. Foxys Graphic/Shutterstock "OK" is probably the most spoken word in the world — besides English, people say "OK" in a dozen languages, including Spanish, Italian and Russian — and yet almost nobody can tell you what those two letters stand for or where the word came from. Was it borrowed from the indigenous Choctaw word "okeh," mea
