WASHINGTON: Whatever you’re doing this Sunday, wherever you might be, take a moment to reflect on the most popular word in the English language, OK?

It will be 175 years since OK—or, as some prefer, okay—first appeared in print, on page two of The Boston Morning Post, then one of the most popular newspapers in the United States.

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