Even OUP Gets Etymologies All Wrong...

Wed Jan 14 03:56:49 UTC 2004

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:38:22PM -0500, Fred Shapiro wrote:
> I have just noticed, to my distress, that the "Frequently Asked Questions"
> entry for _O.K._ on the "Ask Oxford" web site includes the following,
> which has about five different errors in it and pretty much embraces the
> erroneous "Old Kinderhook" theory at the expense of the rock-solid "oll
> korrect" theory:

Whoops. I'll see that this gets fixed.

JTS