Determining thehemisphere is easy: latitudezones a, C, d, e, F, g, h, J, K, l, andm are in the Southernhemisphere, and the rest are in the Northern hemisphere.
It was a short way of writing a different spelling of the words all correct. Some foreign-born people wrote all correct as o-l-l k-o-r-r-e-c-t, and used the letters O.K.