2006-08-06 13:41:35 · 21 answers · asked by ray 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Oklahoma
2006-08-06 13:45:54 · answer #1 · answered by niles25_14 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
The etymology of OK was masterfully explained by the distinguished Columbia University professor Allen Walker Read in a series of articles in the journal American Speech in 1963 and 1964.
The letters, not to keep you guessing, stand for "oll korrect." They're the result of a fad for comical abbreviations that flourished in the late 1830s and 1840s.
Read buttressed his arguments with hundreds of citations from newspapers and other documents of the period. As far as I know his work has never been successfully challenged.
2006-08-06 13:48:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay is a term of approval or assent, often written as OK, O.K., ok, okay, okee, or more informally as simply kay, k or kk. When used to describe the quality of a thing, it denotes acceptability. However, its usage can also be strongly approving; as with most slang, its usage is determined by context.
The word "okay" is currently the single-most-used word on Earth, owing to its common employment in a vast number of cultures and languages. [citation needed]
There are several theories about the origins of this word, some of them apocryphal and none of them conclusive, although the suggested origin as an initialism of oll korrect has relatively widespread support. Whatever its origin, the word spread around the world, the "okay" spelling of it first appearing in British writing in the 1860s. Spelled out in full in the 20th century, 'okay' has come to be in everyday use among English speakers, and borrowed by non-English speakers. Occasionally a humorous form okee dokee (or okey dokey) is used, as well as A-ok.
2006-08-06 13:44:27 · answer #3 · answered by tazsag31 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
properly, you reported that you're only about on the suitable of the faculty 365 days, and in case you made it this a techniques, you need to make it to the suitable. Suck it up, there is no way you are able to win with this instructor. perfect difficulty you may do is get the total classification to bypass to the proper and state your case about how undesirable of a instructor he's. My chum only those days did that consisting of her instructor, and she or he's in college, yet in her case, the instructor could no longer coach in any respect. Her acquaintances all went to the Dean and complained about the instructor. If the proper nonetheless does no longer something then sorry, there is no longer something else you may do yet suck it up. i comprehend you in easy words want to undesirable mouth him off, yet your mark is on the line, and also you're so close to to ending the 365 days. If something, undesirable mouth him in September once you go decrease back and also you comprehend you exceeded his classification and also you comprehend you'll in no way have him as a instructor again.
2016-11-23 13:28:00 · answer #4 · answered by devers 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oakie Dokie
2006-08-06 13:44:01 · answer #5 · answered by kool_rock_ski_stickem 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Overly Kind
2006-08-06 13:49:05 · answer #6 · answered by not at home 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For some people, like my x-boyfreind, "ya whatever you say" is what he used OK for.
2006-08-06 13:47:10 · answer #7 · answered by Hey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its the abbreviation of my home state Oklahoma...where the wind comes sweeping down the plains
2006-08-06 13:46:22 · answer #8 · answered by MzChamillinator 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question! I know i know what it means but I can't remember it.
2006-08-06 15:54:07 · answer #9 · answered by Tori 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ZERO KILLED. In war it was used to say that u were fine, and that u were still alive (0-K= ZERO KILLED)
But people now use it to say. Yes, fine, all right, etc....
2006-08-06 13:44:43 · answer #10 · answered by Dan 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋