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OK : the improbable story of America's greatest word
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- Summary
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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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- Creator
- Allan Metcalf
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2011
- Physical Details
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- xii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780195377934, 0195377931
- OCLC
- ocn551723688
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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