In my language there was a website that gave an explanation of the formation of popular words. e.g that the word salad comes from salt. Or how the word OK was created. My language has considerably less speakers than English. How come I didn't find an English website on the topic described before?
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You can go to google.com and type "define word" to get a definition and usually etymology. Or you can type "etymology word" to skip the definition.
There are plenty of sites that specialize in the history of words. The site that found the origin of "ok" is www.straightdope.com/ It originated in a Boston newspaper as a slang abbreviation of "oll korrect".