General Questions

How is "O.K." really spelled?

  1. In _The Big Sleep_, published in 1939, Raymond Chandler always spelled it "okey."
  2. So that's how it's spelled when characters in The WITNESS say it.
  3. According to H. L. Mencken's _The American Language_, President Woodrow Wilson used "okeh" on documents.
  4. So that's how it's spelled in the context of the story in The WITNESS.
  5. Today's spelling appears in The WITNESS only in the context of using computers.

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