OK the improbable story of America's greatest word
Allan Metcalf, a renowned popular writer on language, traces the secret history of OK--how it was coined, what it stood for, and the amazing extent of its influence.
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Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a OK : |b the improbable story of America's greatest word / |c Allan Metcalf. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2011. | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 210 p. : |b ill. ; |c 19 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 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 American philosophy. | |
| 520 | |a Allan Metcalf, a renowned popular writer on language, traces the secret history of OK--how it was coined, what it stood for, and the amazing extent of its influence. | ||
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| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x History |x Terminology. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a English language |x Usage. | |
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