OK : the improbable story of America's greatest word /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Metcalf, Allan A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Temas:
English language > United States > Etymology.
English language > Usage.
Americanisms.
Anglais (Langue) > États-Unis > Étymologie.
Anglais (Langue) > États-Unis > Idiotismes.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Americanisms
English language > Etymology
English language > Usage
Amerikanisches Englisch
Interjektion
O.K.
Amerikaans.
Uitdrukkingen.
United States > History > Terminology.
États-Unis > Histoire > Terminologie.
United States
Verenigde Staten.
History
Terminology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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