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Every printer (says the American correspondent of the Phonetic Journal knows what " 0.X." implies upon a proof, and is happy when such greets nis eye, knowing that corrections are at an end. Few, however, know the reason of its introduction. General Jackson, when a judge, was in the habit of marking " 0.R.," meaning "order recorded." The famous "Major Jack Downing" (Seba Smith), seeing papers thus endorsed, mistook the initials to be "0.X.," and j estingly declared the General used them as an abbreviation of " Orl Korreot." The idea ••caught on" with the public, and since that time the term has become the synonym of certification of approval and freedom from error.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 10 January 1891, Page 3
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113O. K. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 10 January 1891, Page 3
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