Can Native Speakers of a Language Make Mistakes?

andreaallen:

hot4discourse:

is a 1961 speech by Allen Walker Read - he decides that “No” they cannot - and I can’t find it anywhere online. Can anyone help me find a copy? He also discovered that OK comes from the misspelling and abbreviation craze of newspapers during the 1830’s (all correct became Oll Korrect which became OK). This stuff blows my mind.

Cool! I just posted something similar about all words being “real” words.

 That’s the reason why AP style calls for OK to be spelled “OK” rather than “okay.” I’m sort of proud that I already knew this.