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OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word Allan Metcalf Author

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 countless times every day. Yet few of us know the secret history of OK - how it was coined, what it stood for, and the amazing extent of its influence. Allan Metcalf here traces the evolution of America's most popular word, writing with brevity and wit, and ranging across American history with colourful portraits of the nooks and crannies in which OK survived and prospered. He describes how OK was born as a lame joke in a newspaper article in 1839, used as a supposedly humorous abbreviation for "oll korrect" (i.e, "all correct"), but should have died a quick death, as most clever coinages do. However OK was swept along in a nineteenth-century fad for abbreviations, was appropriated by a presidential campaign (one of the candidates being called "Old Kinderhook"), and finally was picked up by operators of the telegraph. Over the next century and a half, it established a firm toehold in the American lexicon, and eventually became embedded in pop culture, from the "I'm OK, You're OK" of 1970's transactional analysis, to Ned Flanders' absurd "Okeley Dokeley!" Indeed, OK became emblematic of a uniquely American attitude, and is one of the country's most successful global exports. Anyone who loves the life of words or the quirky corners of American culture will find this delightful book more than just OK.

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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780195377934
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0195377931
Hardcover
Publishing year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press Core >2
224 Pages
Weight: 0,292 kg
Language: eng/Englisch

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Book found last time on 2024-11-01T14:26:38+00:00 (London)
ISBN/EAN: 9780195377934

ISBN - alternate spelling:
0-19-537793-1, 978-0-19-537793-4
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Book author: metcalf, oxford university press, washington
Book title: the story, word, america america


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