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Wasn’t the guy who wrote “all correct” as “oll korrekt”[1] a native [American] English speaker also?

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1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK




Not to contradict you, but fascinating coincidence: my favorite alleged originator of OK — "Old Kinderhook," Martin Van Buren — is to date the one and only U.S. president who did not speak English as his first language.

(But "oll korrect" is apparently attributed to Andrew Jackson, who was a native speaker, yes.)




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