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		dboreham on Oct 13, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test But it is ...wrong. OK originated as an abbreviation so why spell out the pronunciation of the letters? Makes no sense to me.

thaumasiotes on Oct 13, 2016 [–]

Because the connection to a 180-year-old fad for misspelling "all correct" is so obscure and non-obvious that it was lost long ago? Do you think we should be capitalizing LASER, too?

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