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.
| Main Author: | Metcalf, Allan A. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.