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 (DIR) Post #ASicqn8SE5gHO4fNUe by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-02-15T23:23:50Z
       
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       The etymology and global spread of the term "OK" (aka O.K., okay) has to be one of the oddest in the history of language.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASicxEnMIiTmuTsB96 by dannyman@sfba.social
       2023-02-15T23:25:00Z
       
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       @lauren Okay.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASidiTWzKYkGDtjxmC by philpennock@infosec.exchange
       2023-02-15T23:33:32Z
       
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       @lauren There's a webserial/ebook series "A Journey of Black and Red" which is set in 19th century America and which makes humorous throw-away reference to this. Ah, found it, book 5:“Okay?” she replies, but Aunt Ari frowns.“Not you too.”“What?”“This ‘okay’ thing.  The acronym of a purposely misspelled ‘all correct.’  I first read it in a Boston journal, and now it has spread everywhere, including here,” she grumbles.Lynn keeps quiet.  She heard that from a travelling salesman and thought it sounded nice.“Probably just a fad,” Aunt Ari continues, “something this silly cannot possibly become part of our everyday language.”
       
 (DIR) Post #ASieU5PcJ6sLJszl7w by jeber@mastodon.social
       2023-02-15T23:42:10Z
       
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       @lauren I love this topic.Also, does anyone outside my family usually say, "Okey-Dokey"?
       
 (DIR) Post #ASieVuO6Gbnxhu9dx2 by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-02-15T23:42:33Z
       
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       @jeber Yes, though they rarely admit it.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASiedfTjaB75mfUR0q by jeber@mastodon.social
       2023-02-15T23:43:52Z
       
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       @lauren What can I say. The family was transplanted from Nebraska to California. They brought their "ruralisms" with them.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASigKS4BQM4waqVGhE by DrGecko@masthead.social
       2023-02-16T00:02:48Z
       
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       @lauren My first linguistic teacher did fieldwork among one of the Yanomami groups in northern Brazil and southern Venezuela. This group had had almost no contact with Spanish or Portuguese speakers, although neighboring Yanomami did, and they had "ok."
       
 (DIR) Post #ASj0MrRy19O4yv3QZc by tippenring@mastodon.social
       2023-02-16T03:47:21Z
       
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       @lauren as I recall, I believe it was a book called "The straight dope" where I read it was short for old kinderhook or something like that. If you haven't read the straight dope, you are not one of the teeming masses. Lol
       
 (DIR) Post #ASj0SNinSc3mW9YhHs by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-02-16T03:48:21Z
       
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       @tippenring It's well documented. It actually started with a newspaper column in Boston, but the aspect you note became part of it also.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASj0jShgBtPCtMBG4W by tippenring@mastodon.social
       2023-02-16T03:51:23Z
       
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       @lauren  I knew the origins of the books. The column wasn't in my local papers though. I just recall reading about the origin of ok in one of the series of books.