ik heb geleerd waar de uitdrukking Ok, waarschijnlijk zijn oorsprong vandaan heeft, en dat heeft een Nederlands tintje:
Kinderhook (village), New York
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Kinderhook (Kinderhoek in Dutch) is a village located in the Town of Kinderhook in Columbia County, New York, USA. The population was 1,275 at the 2000 census.
The Village of Kinderhook is located in the south-central part of the town on US Route 9.
History
United States President Martin Van Buren was born in Kinderhook village, and was known as "Old Kinderhook" which was sometimes abbreviated as "O.K.", thus some sources attribute the use of the phrase "OK" to Van Buren and his supporters.
The area was named by Henry Hudson in 1609 as "Kinderhoeck" (Dutch for children's corner) because he had seen native American children frequently playing there. First settled by the Dutch around 1640, although the area was part of that surrenderd to the British in 1664.
In 1686 the area was granted the Great Kinderhook Patent and organized into one township.
Much of the area's growth did not occur until the 19th century - in 1813 the village had only twenty dwellings. By 1843, the number had grown to 86 and just seven years later there were about 200 buildings and 1400 inhabitants. The size of the village has remained steady since then. In 1838, Kinderhook was chartered as a village.
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