Sponsor |  Daoloth | Apr 29, 2004 12:16pm | Welcome, everyone, to Group Forums! I for one am exceedinly enthused about yet another way I can burn away precious minutes of my life on the Internet! Heh. At any rate, I have a question for the Linguistics group at large: what are the linguistic origins of 'OK'?
I have heard many theroies:
- A derivation of 'All Correct' from Victorian military parlance, the addition of an accent would render this into 'orl korrect'.
- This one shows up in several wars, actually; 'OK' was a expression to say '0 killed' in Vietnam/WWII/Insert War Here
- Taken directly from the Scottish expression 'och aye'
- LSomething about some American president nicknamed 'Old Kinderhood'. I'm afraid memory fails me here.
Anyone have any idea? |
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Sponsor | | bidge | Apr 29, 2004 12:36pm | | 2: one of my favourite websites :). |
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Staff | | joewalp | Apr 29, 2004 12:47pm | Bridget:
In case you haven't come across this feature:
In Firefox, if you type "dict [term]" in the address bar, it opens the dictionary.reference.com page for that term. |
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Sponsor | | drinkfinebeer | Apr 29, 2004 12:49pm | | 5: Cool! I knew about define [term] - thx Joe. |
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Staff | | joewalp | Apr 29, 2004 1:01pm | | You're welcome. |
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Sponsor | | bidge | Apr 29, 2004 1:07pm | | 5 & 6: oooh that's exciting... thanks! and here i was wasting precious toolbar space :P |
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 |  122797 | Jul 22, 2004 6:56am | Okee Dokey?
Oh: k
All Right - wrong - smell you later.
OK?
Axually, it comes from Anglo-Saxon: Old Kipper. A term of endearment.
Are you OK? = Are you my Old Kipper? |
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