[Ads-l] Oll Korrect - March 23 "Lit Hub Daily" newsletter

[Andy Bach]

I suppose this is old news for you'all but LitHub claims:
"In [March 23rd] 1839, the initials “O.K.” are first published in *The
Boston Morning Post*, meant as an abbreviation for “oll korrect,” a popular
slang misspelling of “all correct” at the time.

with the image of the BMP, and other's agree it's from:
We said not a word about our deputation passing “through the city” of
Providence.—We said our brethren were going to New York in the Richmond,
and they did go, as per Post of Thursday. The “Chairman of the Committee on
Charity Lecture Bells,” is one of the deputation, and perhaps if he should
return to Boston, via Providence, he of the Journal, and his *train*-band,
would have his “contribution box,” *et ceteras, o.k.—all correct*—and cause
the corks to fly, like *sparks*, upward.”

e.g.
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