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23.9.10
The earliest claimed usage of X is a 1790 court record from Sumner County, Tennessee, discovered in 1859 by a Tennessee historian named Albigence Waldo Putnam, in which Andrew Jackson apparently said:
"proved a bill of sale from Hugh McGary to Gasper Mansker, for a Negro man, which was ______."
What is widely regarded as the earliest known example of the modern "X" being set down on paper is a quintessential "we arrived X" notation in the hand-written diary of William Richardson going from Boston to New Orleans in 1815, about a month after the Battle of New Orleans. One entry says "we traveled on to N. York where we arrived all well, at 7 P.M." By most reckonings a later similar entry uses "X" in place of "all well": "Arrived at Princeton, a handsome little village, 15 miles from N Brunswick, ________ & at Trenton, where we dined at 1 P.M."
Id X (the blanks are variations of X)
prasanna cracks it...
Its the word 'Okay' or 'O.K.'
"proved a bill of sale from Hugh McGary to Gasper Mansker, for a Negro man, which was ______."
What is widely regarded as the earliest known example of the modern "X" being set down on paper is a quintessential "we arrived X" notation in the hand-written diary of William Richardson going from Boston to New Orleans in 1815, about a month after the Battle of New Orleans. One entry says "we traveled on to N. York where we arrived all well, at 7 P.M." By most reckonings a later similar entry uses "X" in place of "all well": "Arrived at Princeton, a handsome little village, 15 miles from N Brunswick, ________ & at Trenton, where we dined at 1 P.M."
Id X (the blanks are variations of X)
prasanna cracks it...
Its the word 'Okay' or 'O.K.'
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