Show USES OF THE MARK 0 K 11 for many years the letters 0 K 11 have been used to express approval especially throughout the printing and publishing trades in marking proofs of type matter forms and the like as all correct the error in the use ol of these letters Is said bald to have been due to misreading of the mark 0 II 11 which ment ordered recorded some historians state that president andrew jackcon who could not spell well marked a document 0 K asked what it meant ho he said all correct but ho he had bad spelled these words oil korrect president wilson on endorsed various papers and memoranda with okeh 11 and explained that the word was from the choctaw indian language meaning 11 it 1 Is so with a distinctive final meaning of all right correct in the headlines ot of leading dally daily newspapers in which the mark Is used ed 0 K 11 Is the style instead of okeh some of the sports writers however use okeh in headlines of their stories in newspapers tho the relative marks 0 K V 1 d and 0 K N ing are often used in printed matter the greater number of proof rea readers ers still use the mark 0 K and it Is more familiar to compositors pressmen and others in the printing and publishing trades than okeh |