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OK : the improbable story of America's greatest word /
It is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, more common than an infant's first word ma or the ever-present beverage Coke. It was even the first word spoken on the moon. It is "OK"--The most ubiquitous and invisible of American expressions, one used count...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: the ABCs of OK -- A saturday morning in Boston -- 1840: Old kinderhook is OK -- Hoax: Andrew Jackson's misspelling -- Aesthetics: the look and sound of OK -- False origins -- The business of OK -- O.K. clubs -- The literary OK -- Oklahoma is OK -- Okey-dokey -- Modern OK literature -- The Practical OK -- The world and England -- The lifemanship OK -- The psychological OK -- The new American philosophy. | |
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