OK: the improbable story of America's greatest word
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2012
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| adam_text | “An appealing and informative history of OK.“— Washington Post Book World
“Entertaining ... a treat for logophiles.”-/f/r/ri/s Reviews
“Metcalf has produced a complete and completely entertaining history of the most
American of all expressions. More than ‘just OK—revelatory and engrossing.”
—Erin McKean, author of Weird and Wonderful Words
“An impressively worthy biography, description, and analysis of what Metcalf calls
‘America’s greatest word.’ It is a book full of entertaining facts and intriguing suggestions
about the American psyche, which the history of OK illuminates.... The book is full of life,
highly readable, a page-turner.... It is a sterling example of what linguistic scholarship
can, and should, be for the general reader.”-John Algeo in Dictionaries, journal of the
Dictionary Society of North America
“He expands upon the philosophical implications of‘OK the embodiment of down-to-
earth pragmatism and OK the voice of tolerance,’ an amalgam that he takes to be a
modern American cornerstone, which makes OK not just America’s greatest word, but
‘its greatest invention.’ All righty, then.”-Roy Blount Jr., New York Times Book Review
Allan Metcalf, a renowned popular writer on language, here traces the evolution
of America’s most popular word, writing with brevity and wit, and ranging across
American history. He describes how OK was born as a lame joke in a newspaper
article in 1839-used as a supposedly humorous abbreviation for “oil korrect” (i.e.,
“all correct”)-and should have died a quick death. 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 1960s transactional analysis, to Ned
Flanders’ absurd “Okeley Dokeley!” Indeed, OK became emblematic of a uniquely
American attitude, and is one of our most successful global exports.
ALLAN METCALF is Professor of English at MacMurray College and Executive
Secretary of the American Dialect Society. He is the author of many other books on
language, including most recently Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George
Washington to George W. Bush (2004). He participates in the “Lingua Franca” blog of
the Chronicle of Higher Education.
ISBN 978-0-19-989253-2
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CONTENTS
Preface ix p
1. Introduction: The ABCs of OK ......................... i
2. A Saturday Morning in Boston......................... 28
3. 1840: Old Kinderhook Is OK .......................... 40
4. Hoax: Andrew Jacksons Misspelling.................... 56
5. Aesthetics: The Look and Sound of OK . . . .......... 76
6. False Origins........................................ 80
7. The Business of OK ................................. 96
8. O.K. Clubs.......................................... 117
9. The Literary OK .....................................123
10. Oklahoma Is OK ......................................143
11. Okey-Dokey...........................................147
12. Modern OK Literature.................................157
13. The Practical OK ...................................166
14. The World—and England............................... 171
15. The Lifemanship OK ..................................182
16. The Psychological OK ................................185
17. The American Philosophy..............................196
18. Postscript: OK Day March 23..........................199
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