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data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%87" title="ওকে – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ওকে" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%B9" title="Окей – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Окей" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basst_scho" title="Basst scho – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Basst scho" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Boarisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK" title="OK – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="OK" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%94%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0" title="Ĕриса – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Ĕриса" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target">Чӑвашла</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._k." title="O. k. – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="O. k." data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay" title="Okay – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Okay" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay" title="Okay – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Okay" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okei" title="Okei – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Okei" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK" title="OK – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="OK" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK" title="OK – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="OK" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okej" title="Okej – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Okej" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK" title="OK – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="OK" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%DA%A9%DB%8C" title="اوکی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="اوکی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_(expression)" title="OK (expression) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="OK (expression)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay" title="Okay – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="Okay" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%95%D6%84%D5%A5%D5%B5" title="Օքեյ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Օքեյ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%93%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87" title="ओके – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="ओके" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK" title="OK – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="OK" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oke" title="Oke – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Oke" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay" title="Okay – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Okay" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingua</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay" title="Okay – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Okay" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%99" title="אוקיי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אוקיי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay" title="Okay – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Okay" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK" title="OK – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="OK" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.K." title="O.K. – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="O.K." data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.K." title="O.K. – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="O.K." data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A" title="أوكي – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="أوكي" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okey" title="Okey – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Okey" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%A1%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%80%E1%80%B1" title="အိုကေ – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="အိုကေ" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target">မြန်မာဘာသာ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ok%C3%A9" title="Oké – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Oké" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_(%E8%A1%A8%E7%8F%BE)" title="OK (表現) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="OK (表現)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ok_(ord)" title="Ok (ord) – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Ok (ord)" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK" title="OK – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="OK" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okey" title="Okey – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Okey" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%93%E0%A8%95%E0%A9%87" title="ਓਕੇ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਓਕੇ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pap mw-list-item"><a href="https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ok" title="Ok – Papiamento" lang="pap" hreflang="pap" data-title="Ok" data-language-autonym="Papiamentu" data-language-local-name="Papiamento" class="interlanguage-link-target">Papiamentu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK" title="OK – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="OK" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK" title="OK – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="OK" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay" title="Okay – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Okay" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%B9" title="Окей – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Окей" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK" title="OK – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="OK" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sicilianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK" title="OK – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="OK" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK" title="OK – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="OK" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenščina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okej" title="Okej – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Okej" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okei" title="Okei – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Okei" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okej" title="Okej – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Okej" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%93%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%87" title="ఓకే – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="ఓకే" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target">తెలుగు</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK" title="OK – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="OK" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target">ไทย</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK" title="OK – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="OK" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/OK-button_-_Macro_photography_of_a_remote_control.jpg/220px-OK-button_-_Macro_photography_of_a_remote_control.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/OK-button_-_Macro_photography_of_a_remote_control.jpg/330px-OK-button_-_Macro_photography_of_a_remote_control.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/OK-button_-_Macro_photography_of_a_remote_control.jpg/440px-OK-button_-_Macro_photography_of_a_remote_control.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>An OK <a href="/wiki/Push-button" title="Push-button">button</a> on a <a href="/wiki/Remote_control" title="Remote control">remote control</a></figcaption></figure> OK (<a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˌoʊˈkeɪ/</a> <span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="ext-phonos-PhonosButton noexcerpt 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href="/wiki/American_English" title="American English">American English</a>) denoting approval, acceptance, agreement, assent, acknowledgment, or a sign of indifference. OK is frequently used as a <a href="/wiki/Loanword" title="Loanword">loanword</a> in other languages. It has been described as the most frequently spoken or written word on the planet.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> The origin of OK is disputed; however, most modern reference works hold that it originated around Boston as part of a fad in the late 1830s of <a href="/wiki/Abbreviation" title="Abbreviation">abbreviating</a> misspellings; that it is an initialism of "oll korrect" as a misspelling of "all correct". This origin was first described by linguist <a href="/wiki/Allen_Walker_Read" title="Allen Walker Read">Allen Walker Read</a> in the 1960s. As an <a href="/wiki/Adjective" title="Adjective">adjective</a>, OK principally means "adequate" or "acceptable" as a contrast to "bad" ("The boss approved this, so it is OK to send out"); it can also mean "mediocre" when used in contrast with "good" ("The french fries were great, but the burger was just OK"). It fulfills a similar role as an adverb ("Wow, you did OK for your first time skiing!"). As an <a href="/wiki/Interjection" title="Interjection">interjection</a>, it can denote compliance ("OK, I will do that"),<a href="#cite_note-CK2021-2">[2]</a> or agreement ("OK, that is fine"). It can mean "assent" when it is used as a <a href="/wiki/Noun" title="Noun">noun</a> ("the boss gave her the OK to the purchase") or, more colloquially, as a <a href="/wiki/Verb" title="Verb">verb</a> ("the boss OKed the purchase"). OK, as an adjective, can express acknowledgement without approval.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeaver2011-3">[3]</a> As a versatile discourse marker or <a href="/wiki/Backchannel_(linguistics)" title="Backchannel (linguistics)">continuer</a>, it can also be used with appropriate <a href="/wiki/Intonation_(linguistics)" title="Intonation (linguistics)">intonation</a> to show doubt or to seek confirmation ("OK?", "Is that OK?").<a href="#cite_note-Yngve,_Victor_page_568-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-CK2021-2">[2]</a> Some of this variation in use and shape of the word is also found in other languages.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymologies">Etymologies</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_proposed_etymologies_of_OK" title="List of proposed etymologies of OK">List of proposed etymologies of OK</a></div> Many explanations for the origin of the expression have been suggested, but few have been discussed seriously by <a href="/wiki/Linguistics" title="Linguistics">linguists</a>. The following proposals have found mainstream recognition.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Boston_abbreviation_fad">Boston abbreviation fad</h3></div> The <a href="/wiki/Etymology" title="Etymology">etymology</a> that most reference works provide today is based on a survey of the word's early history in print: a series of six articles by <a href="/wiki/Allen_Walker_Read" title="Allen Walker Read">Allen Walker Read</a><a href="#cite_note-bailey-7">[7]</a> in the journal American Speech in 1963 and 1964.<a href="#cite_note-AHD-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-read-9">[9]</a> He tracked the spread and evolution of the word in American newspapers and other written documents, and later throughout the rest of the world. He also documented controversy surrounding OK and the history of its <a href="/wiki/False_etymology" title="False etymology">folk etymologies</a>, both of which are intertwined with the history of the word itself. Read argues that, at the time of the expression's first appearance in print, a broader <a href="/wiki/Fad" title="Fad">fad</a> existed in the United States of "comical misspellings" and of forming and employing acronyms, themselves based on colloquial speech patterns: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">The abbreviation fad began in Boston in the summer of 1838 ... and used expressions like OFM, "our first men," NG, "no go," GT, "gone to Texas," and SP, "small potatoes." Many of the abbreviated expressions were exaggerated misspellings, a stock in trade of the humorists of the day. One predecessor of OK was OW, "oll wright."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdams1985-10">[10]</a></blockquote> The general fad is speculated to have existed in spoken or informal written U.S. English for a decade or more before its appearance in newspapers. OK's original presentation as "all correct" was later varied with spellings such as "Oll Korrect" or even "Ole Kurreck". The term appears to have achieved national prominence in 1840, when supporters of the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic political party</a> claimed during the <a href="/wiki/1840_United_States_presidential_election" title="1840 United States presidential election">1840 United States presidential election</a> that it stood for "Old Kinderhook", a nickname for the Democratic president and candidate for reelection, <a href="/wiki/Martin_Van_Buren" title="Martin Van Buren">Martin Van Buren</a>, a native of <a href="/wiki/Kinderhook_(town),_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Kinderhook (town), New York">Kinderhook, New York</a>. "Vote for OK" was snappier than using his Dutch name.<a href="#cite_note-The_Economist-11">[11]</a> In response, <a href="/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)" title="Whig Party (United States)">Whig</a> opponents attributed OK, in the sense of "Oll Korrect", to the bad spelling of <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jackson" title="Andrew Jackson">Andrew Jackson</a>, Van Buren's predecessor. The country-wide publicity surrounding the election appears to have been a critical event in OK's history, widely and suddenly popularizing it across the United States. Read proposed an etymology of OK in "Old Kinderhook" in 1941.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERead1941-12">[12]</a> The evidence presented in that article was somewhat sparse, and the connection to "Oll Korrect" not fully elucidated. Various challenges to the etymology were presented; e.g., Heflin's 1962 article.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeflin1962-13">[13]</a> However, Read's landmark 1963–1964 papers silenced most of the skepticism. Read's etymology gained immediate acceptance, and is now offered without reservation in most dictionaries.<a href="#cite_note-AHD-8">[8]</a> Read himself was nevertheless open to evaluating alternative explanations: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">Some believe that the Boston newspaper's reference to OK may not be the earliest. Some are attracted to the claim that it is of American-Indian origin. There is an Indian word, okeh, used as an affirmative reply to a question. Mr Read treated such doubting calmly. "Nothing is absolute," he once wrote, "nothing is forever."<a href="#cite_note-The_Economist-11">[11]</a></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Choctaw">Choctaw</h3></div> In "All Mixed Up", the folk singer <a href="/wiki/Pete_Seeger" title="Pete Seeger">Pete Seeger</a> sang that OK was of <a href="/wiki/Choctaw" title="Choctaw">Choctaw</a> origin,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFay2007-14">[14]</a> as the dictionaries of the time tended to agree. Three major American reference works (Webster's, New Century, Funk & Wagnalls) cited this etymology as the probable origin until as late as 1961.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFay2007-14">[14]</a> The earliest written evidence for the Choctaw origin is provided in work by the Christian missionaries <a href="/wiki/Cyrus_Byington" title="Cyrus Byington">Cyrus Byington</a> and Alfred Wright in 1825.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] These missionaries ended many sentences in their translation of the Bible with the <a href="/wiki/Grammatical_particle" title="Grammatical particle">particle</a> "okeh", meaning "it is so",[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] which was listed as an alternative spelling in the 1913 Webster's.<a href="#cite_note-okeh-15">[15]</a> Byington's Dictionary of the Choctaw Language confirms the ubiquity of the "okeh" particle,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEByington1915-16">[16]</a> and his Grammar of the Choctaw Language calls the particle -keh an "affirmative contradistinctive", with the "distinctive" o- prefix.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEByington187014-17">[17]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">Subsequent Choctaw spelling books de-emphasized the spellings lists in favor of straight prose, and they made use of the particle[,] but they too never included it in the word lists or discussed it directly. The presumption was that the use of particle "oke" or "hoke" was so common and self-evident as to preclude any need for explanation or discussion for either its Choctaw or non-Choctaw readership.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFay2007-14">[14]</a></blockquote> The <a href="/wiki/Choctaw_language" title="Choctaw language">Choctaw language</a> was one of the languages spoken at this time in the <a href="/wiki/Southeastern_United_States" title="Southeastern United States">Southeastern United States</a> by a tribe with significant contact with African slaves.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> The major language of trade in this area, <a href="/wiki/Mobilian_Jargon" title="Mobilian Jargon">Mobilian Jargon</a>, was based on Choctaw-Chickasaw, two <a href="/wiki/Muskogean" class="mw-redirect" title="Muskogean">Muskogean</a>-family languages. This language was used, in particular, for communication with the slave-owning<a href="#cite_note-miles-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-enc-20">[20]</a> <a href="/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee">Cherokee</a> (an <a href="/wiki/Iroquoian" class="mw-redirect" title="Iroquoian">Iroquoian</a>-family language).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBadger1971-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHopkins-22">[22]</a> For the three decades prior to the Boston abbreviation fad, the Choctaw had been in extensive negotiation with the U.S. government,<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> after having fought alongside them at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_New_Orleans" title="Battle of New Orleans">Battle of New Orleans</a>. Arguments for a more Southern origin for the word note the tendency of English to adopt loan words in <a href="/wiki/Language_contact" title="Language contact">language contact</a> situations, as well as the ubiquity of the OK particle. Similar particles exist in native language groups distinct from Iroquoian (<a href="/wiki/Algonquian_(language)" class="mw-redirect" title="Algonquian (language)">Algonquian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cree" title="Cree">Cree</a> cf. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.creedictionary.com/search/index.php?q=ekosi&scope=1">ekosi</a>"). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="West_African">West African</h3></div> An early attestation of the particle 'kay' is found in a 1784 transcription of a North Carolina slave, who, seeking to avoid being flogged, explained being found asleep in the canoe he had been ordered to bring to a certain place to pick up a European exploring near his newly-purchased property : <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">Kay, massa, you just leave me, me sit here, great fish jump up into da canoe, here he be, massa, fine fish, massa; me den very grad; den me sit very still, until another great fish jump into de canoe; but me fall asleep...<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmyth17841:118–121-24">[24]</a></blockquote> A West African (Mande and/or Bantu) etymology has been argued in scholarly sources, tracing the word back to the <a href="/wiki/Wolof_language" title="Wolof language">Wolof</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bantu_languages" title="Bantu languages">Bantu</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify">clarification needed</a>] word waw-kay or the <a href="/wiki/Mande_languages" title="Mande languages">Mande</a> (aka "Mandinke" or "Mandingo") phrase o ke.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] David Dalby first made the claim that the particle OK could have African origins in the 1969 Hans Wolff Memorial Lecture. His argument was reprinted in various newspaper articles between 1969 and 1971.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECassidy1981-25">[25]</a> This suggestion has also been mentioned by Joseph Holloway, who argued in the 1993 book The African Heritage of American English (co-written with a retired missionary) that various West African languages have near-homophone discourse markers with meanings such as "yes indeed" or which serve as part of the <a href="/wiki/Backchannel_(linguistics)" title="Backchannel (linguistics)">back-channeling</a> repertoire.<a href="#cite_note-Yngve,_Victor_page_568-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHollowayVass1993-26">[26]</a> Frederic Cassidy challenged Dalby's claims, asserting that there is no documentary evidence that any of these African-language words had any causal link with its use in the American press.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECassidy1981-25">[25]</a> The West African hypothesis had not been accepted by 1981 by any etymologists,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECassidy1981-25">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-onlineetym-27">[27]</a><a href="#cite_note-lighter-28">[28]</a> yet has since appeared in scholarly sources published by linguists and non-linguists alike.<a href="#cite_note-linguistlist.org-29">[29]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alternative_etymologies">Alternative etymologies</h3></div> A large number of origins have been proposed. Some of them are thought to fall into the category of <a href="/wiki/False_etymology" title="False etymology">folk etymology</a> and are proposed based merely on apparent similarity between OK and one or another phrase in a foreign language with a similar meaning and sound. Some examples are: <ul><li>A corruption from the speech of the large number of descendants of Scottish and <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Scots_people" title="Ulster Scots people">Ulster Scots</a> (Scots-Irish) immigrants to North America, of the common Scots phrase och aye ("oh yes").<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a></li> <li>A borrowing of the <a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> phrase όλα καλά (óla kalá), meaning "all good".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWeber1942-31">[31]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_history_in_print">Early history in print</h2></div> <a href="/wiki/Allen_Walker_Read" title="Allen Walker Read">Allen Walker Read</a> identifies the earliest known use of O.K. in print as 1839, in the edition of 23 March of the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Morning_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Morning Post">Boston Morning Post</a>. The announcement of a trip by the Anti-Bell-Ringing Society (a "frolicsome group" according to Read) received attention from the Boston papers. Charles Gordon Greene wrote about the event using the line that is widely regarded as the first instance of this strain of OK, complete with <a href="/wiki/Gloss_(annotation)#In_linguistics" title="Gloss (annotation)">gloss</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">The above is from the <a href="/wiki/Providence_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Providence Journal">Providence Journal</a>, the editor of which is a little too quick on the trigger, on this occasion. We said not a word about our deputation passing "through the city" of Providence.—We said our brethren were going to New York in the Richmond, and they did go, as per Post of Thursday. The "Chairman of the Committee on Charity Lecture Bells," is one of the deputation, and perhaps if he should return to Boston, via Providence, he of the Journal, and his train-band, would have his "contribution box," et ceteras, o.k.—all correct—and cause the corks to fly, like sparks, upward.</blockquote> Read gives a number of subsequent appearances in print. Seven instances were accompanied with glosses that were variations on "all correct" such as "oll korrect" or "ole kurreck", but five appeared with no accompanying explanation, suggesting that the word was expected to be well known to readers and possibly in common colloquial use at the time. Various claims of earlier usage have been made. For example, it was claimed that the phrase appeared in a 1790 court record from <a href="/wiki/Sumner_County,_Tennessee" title="Sumner County, Tennessee">Sumner County, Tennessee</a>, discovered in 1859 by a <a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a> historian named <a href="/wiki/Albigence_Waldo_Putnam" title="Albigence Waldo Putnam">Albigence Waldo Putnam</a>, in which <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jackson" title="Andrew Jackson">Andrew Jackson</a> apparently said "proved a bill of sale from Hugh McGary to Gasper Mansker, for a Negro man, which was O.K.".<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> The lawyer who successfully argued many Indian rights claims, <a href="/wiki/Felix_S._Cohen" title="Felix S. Cohen">Felix S. Cohen</a>, supported the Jacksonian popularization of the term based on its Choctaw origin: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">When Andrew Jackson popularized a word that his Choctaw neighbors always used in their councils to signify agreement, the aristocrats he threw out of office, always grasping at a chance to ridicule backwoods illiteracy, accused him of abbreviating and misspelling "All Correct". But O.K. (or okeh, in Choctaw) does not mean "all correct"; it means that we have reached a point where practical agreement is possible, however far from perfection it may lie.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a></blockquote> David Dalby brought up a 1941 reference dating the term to 1815. The apparent notation "we arrived ok" appears in the hand-written diary of William Richardson traveling from Boston to New Orleans about a month after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_New_Orleans" title="Battle of New Orleans">Battle of New Orleans</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeflin194190-34">[34]</a> However, Frederic Cassidy asserts that he personally tracked down this diary, writing: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">After many attempts to track down this diary, Read and I at last discovered that it is owned by the grandson of the original writer, Professor L. Richardson, Jr., of the Department of Classical Studies at Duke University. Through his courtesy we were able to examine this manuscript carefully, to make greatly enlarged photographs of it, and to become convinced (as is Richardson) that, whatever the marks in the manuscript are, they are not OK.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECassidy1981-25">[25]</a></blockquote> Similarly, <a href="/wiki/H._L._Mencken" title="H. L. Mencken">H. L. Mencken</a>, who originally considered it "very clear that 'o. k.' is actually in the manuscript",<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWait1941-35">[35]</a> later recanted his endorsement of the expression, asserting that it was used no earlier than 1839. Mencken (following Read) described the diary entry as a misreading of the author's self-correction, and stated it was in reality the first two letters of the words a h[andsome] before noticing the phrase had been used in the previous line and changing his mind.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMencken1945275-36">[36]</a> Another example given by Dalby is a Jamaican planter's diary of 1816, which records a black slave saying "Oh ki, massa, doctor no need be fright, we no want to hurt him".<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> Cassidy asserts that this is a misreading of the source, which actually begins "Oh, ki, massa ...", where ki is a phrase by itself: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">In all other examples of this interjection that I have found, it is simply ki (once spelled kie). As here, it expresses surprise, amusement, satisfaction, mild expostulation, and the like. It has nothing like the meaning of the adjective OK, which in the earliest recorded examples means 'all right, good,' though it later acquires other meanings, but even when used as an interjection does not express surprise, expostulation, or anything similar.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECassidy1981-25">[25]</a></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Variations">Variations</h2></div> Whether this word is printed as OK, Ok, ok, okay, or O.K. is a matter normally resolved in the style manual for the publication involved. Dictionaries and style guides such as <a href="/wiki/The_Chicago_Manual_of_Style" title="The Chicago Manual of Style">The Chicago Manual of Style</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Manual_of_Style_and_Usage" title="The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage">The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage</a> provide no consensus.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Variation</th> <th>Description </th></tr> <tr> <td>okeh </td> <td>An alternative spelling, no longer common,<a href="#cite_note-okeh-15">[15]</a> although it remained in sporadic use well into the 20th century.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>hokay </td> <td>Used as an alternative.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </td></tr> <tr> <td>k or kk or oka </td> <td>Commonly used in <a href="/wiki/Instant_messaging" title="Instant messaging">instant messaging</a>, or in <a href="/wiki/SMS" title="SMS">SMS</a> messages. Before the days of SMS, "K"   ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄  was used as a <a href="/wiki/Prosigns_for_Morse_code" title="Prosigns for Morse code">Morse code prosign</a> for "Go Ahead".[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </td></tr> <tr> <td>Okie dokie </td> <td>This slang term was popularized in the film "<a href="/wiki/The_Little_Rascals" class="mw-redirect" title="The Little Rascals">The Little Rascals</a>" (Oki doki). Also with alternate spellings, including okeydoke.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>] The phrase can be extended further, e.g. "Okie dokie (aka) pokie / smokie / artichokie / karaoke / lokie," etc.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>] </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/A-OK" class="mw-redirect" title="A-OK">A-OK</a> </td> <td>Variant attributed to <a href="/wiki/Alan_Shepard" title="Alan Shepard">Alan Shepard</a> and the 1961 <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> launch of the <a href="/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_3" title="Mercury-Redstone 3">Mercury mission</a>.<a href="#cite_note-time19620302-43">[43]</a><a href="#cite_note-right-stuff-p227-44">[44]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute#Disputed_statement" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute">dubious</a> – <a href="/wiki/Talk:OK#Dubious" title="Talk:OK">discuss</a>] </td></tr> <tr> <td>M'kay </td> <td>Slang term popularized by <a href="/wiki/South_Park" title="South Park">South Park</a> TV show. Pronounced also as "Mmmm K". This variation has connotations of sarcasm, such as condescending disagreement.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </td></tr> <tr> <td>Okily Dokily! </td> <td>Catchphrase used by <a href="/wiki/Ned_Flanders" title="Ned Flanders">Ned Flanders</a> in <a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons" title="The Simpsons">The Simpsons</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>Oki or okii or okie </td> <td>Humorous respellings of okay. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International_usage">International usage</h3></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a>. 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Find sources: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22OK%22">"OK"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22OK%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22OK%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22OK%22+-wikipedia">books</a> · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22OK%22">scholar</a> · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22OK%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a> (June 2022) (<a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Language</th> <th>Form</th> <th>Usage/history </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Afrikaans" title="Afrikaans">Afrikaans</a> </td> <td>oukei </td> <td>Used in colloquial <a href="/wiki/Afrikaans" title="Afrikaans">Afrikaans</a>.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a> </td> <td>اوكي or اوك </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a> speakers also use the word widely, particularly in areas of former British presence like Egypt, <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>, Israel, Jordan, and Palestine. The prevalence of the term in the Arab world can be attributed to the prevalence of American cinema and television. It is pronounced just as it is in English but is very rarely seen in Arabic newspapers and formal media.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Catalan_language" title="Catalan language">Catalan</a> </td> <td>okey </td> <td>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese language</a> </td> <td>OK </td> <td>In Mainland China, the native term 好; hǎo (literally: "good") is more often used instead, saying "OK" is usually reserved for when communicating with foreigners. However, the term tends to be modified into "OK了" (OK le) to better fit <a href="/wiki/Mandarin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Mandarin language">Mandarin</a> grammar. (The "了" indicates a change of state; in this case it indicates the achievement of consensus.) It is also somewhat humorously used in the "spelling" of the word for karaoke, "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%8D%A1%E6%8B%89OK" class="extiw" title="wikt:卡拉OK">卡拉OK</a>", pronounced "kah-lah-oh-kei" (Mandarin does not natively have a syllable with the pronunciation "kei"). On computers, OK is usually translated as 确定; quèdìng, which means "confirm" or "confirmed".[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>, OK is frequently used in various sentences, popular among but not limited to younger generations. This includes the aforementioned "OK了" (Okay le), "OK嗎" (Okay ma), meaning "Is it okay?" or "OK啦" (Okay la), a strong, persuading affirmative (similar to English's "Alright, cool"), as well as the somewhat tongue-in-cheek yes/no construction "O不OK?" (O bù OK?), "Is it OK or not?", again adopting the term into Chinese grammar.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Czech_language" title="Czech language">Czech</a> </td> <td>oukej </td> <td>Pronounced as the English OK. When written OK, it is pronounced [o:ka:]. Neither version recognized as official.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Registered since the 1940s.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Danish_language" title="Danish language">Danish</a> </td> <td>okay, OK [ɔʊ̯kʰɛɪ̯] [oːˀ kʰɔːˀ]<a href="#cite_note-sp-47">[a]</a> </td> <td>Appears from the 1930s. Pronunciation can be reduced and both vowels may become monophthongs. There is a difference in meaning between stress on first or last syllable.<a href="#cite_note-48">[47]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a> </td> <td>oké </td> <td>oke, ok and okay are also used, but are less common in the formal written language.<a href="#cite_note-49">[48]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Esperanto" title="Esperanto">Esperanto</a> </td> <td>o kej </td> <td>The word is pronounced with stress on the second syllable.<a href="#cite_note-50">[49]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Estonian_Language" class="mw-redirect" title="Estonian Language">Estonian</a> </td> <td>okei </td> <td>Okei is the most common form, but others include okk, okoo, oki, okas, okeika and reduplicated versions.<a href="#cite_note-keevallik-51">[50]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Faroese_language" title="Faroese language">Faroese</a> </td> <td>ókey [ɔuˈkɛɪ] </td> <td>Possibly loaned in the 1940s as a result of the <a href="/wiki/British_occupation_of_the_Faroe_Islands" title="British occupation of the Faroe Islands">British occupation of the Faroe Islands</a> or through Danish.<a href="#cite_note-joansson-52">[51]</a>: 193  </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Filipino_language" title="Filipino language">Filipino</a> </td> <td>okay </td> <td>Especially in the phrase okay lang 'it's okay'.<a href="#cite_note-53">[52]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Finnish_language" title="Finnish language">Finnish</a> </td> <td>'OK, okei [okeɪ], [oukeɪ], [ookoo]<a href="#cite_note-sp-47">[a]</a><a href="#cite_note-54">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-55">[54]</a> </td> <td>Used since the 1930s. Used as part of conversational transition and closing, to signal acceptance of a directive, and to respond to sharing of information.<a href="#cite_note-56">[55]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> </td> <td>oké </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-57">[56]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a> </td> <td>O.K., o.k., okay [owkeɪ] [ɔˈkeː], [oˈkeː]<a href="#cite_note-58">[57]</a> </td> <td>Used to mark understanding, agreement, closing and transition.<a href="#cite_note-helmer-59">[58]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> </td> <td>OK, οκ [ocei] [ok]<a href="#cite_note-60">[b]</a> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-61">[59]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Modern_Hebrew" title="Modern Hebrew">Modern Hebrew</a> </td> <td>או קיי </td> <td>Common as equivalent to the Hebrew word בסדר [b'seder] ('adequate', 'in order').[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_language" title="Hungarian language">Hungarian</a> </td> <td>oké </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-62">[60]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Icelandic_language" title="Icelandic language">Icelandic</a> </td> <td>ókei </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-63">[61]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japanese</a> </td> <td>オーケー (lit. "ōkē"), オッケー (lit. "okkē")[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </td> <td>Early records include a song from 1930 and a novel in 1951. The word has a high-low tone. Also used in a reduplicated form.<a href="#cite_note-kuroshima-64">[62]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Korean_language" title="Korean language">Korean</a> </td> <td>오케이 /okʰei/ </td> <td>Occurs in newspapers, magazines and novels from the 1920s. The word is found in a 1937 loanword dictionary.<a href="#cite_note-kuroshima-64">[62]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Latvian_language" title="Latvian language">Latvian</a> </td> <td>okej </td> <td>ok also used, but considered to be a part of more colloquial internet language.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Macedonian_language" title="Macedonian language">Macedonian</a> </td> <td>okej </td> <td>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Malay_language" title="Malay language">Malay</a> </td> <td>OK </td> <td>Frequently used with the emphatic suffix "lah": OK-lah.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Maldivian_language" title="Maldivian language">Maldivian</a> </td> <td>Okay </td> <td>Used in different ways, often used to agree with something, more often used while departing from a gathering "Okay Dahnee/Kendee."[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Maltese_language" title="Maltese language">Maltese</a> </td> <td>owkej </td> <td>Pronounced as the English OK.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_language" title="Norwegian language">Norwegian</a> </td> <td>OK, ok [okeɪ] or [o ko]<a href="#cite_note-sp-47">[a]</a> </td> <td>Okei and oukei are also commonly used written or spoken.<a href="#cite_note-65">[63]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Polish_language" title="Polish language">Polish</a> </td> <td>okej </td> <td>The most frequent form is okej, but others are oki, oka, okidok, okejka and okejos.<a href="#cite_note-keevallik-51">[50]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a> </td> <td>OK, oquei </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-66">[64]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a> </td> <td>okey, окей, океюшки, ок, окейно[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </td> <td>Used for conversation closure.<a href="#cite_note-intro-67">[65]</a>: 28  </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Serbo-Croatian" title="Serbo-Croatian">Serbo-Croatian</a> </td> <td>okej </td> <td>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Singlish" title="Singlish">Singlish</a> </td> <td>OK </td> <td>OK is often used with suffixes used such as OK lor, OK lah, OK meh, OK leh, which are used in different occasions.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Slovak_language" title="Slovak language">Slovak</a> </td> <td>oukej, okej, OK [oʊkeɪ] [o:ka:]<a href="#cite_note-sp-47">[a]</a> </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-68">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-69">[67]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Slovenian_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Slovenian language">Slovene</a> </td> <td>okej, okay </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-70">[68]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> </td> <td>okey </td> <td>Used in Spain in the 1980s. Also part of the phrase <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/okey,_makey#Spanish" class="extiw" title="wikt:okey, makey">okey, makey</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Fernández-71">[69]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>] </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Swedish_language" title="Swedish language">Swedish</a> </td> <td>okej </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-72">[70]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Thai_language" title="Thai language">Thai</a> </td> <td>โอเค </td> <td>Pronounced "o khe".<a href="#cite_note-73">[71]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a> </td> <td>okey </td> <td>Has a secondary meaning referring to the game <a href="/wiki/Okey" title="Okey">Okey</a>, from a company that used the word as its name in the 1960s.<a href="#cite_note-74">[72]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Urdu" title="Urdu">Urdu</a> </td> <td>OK </td> <td>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_language" title="Vietnamese language">Vietnamese</a> </td> <td>ô-kê </td> <td>Used in <a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_language" title="Vietnamese language">Vietnam</a>; okey also used, but ok more commonly.<a href="#cite_note-75">[73]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS">better source needed</a>] </td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-sp-47">^ <a href="#cite_ref-sp_47-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-sp_47-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-sp_47-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-sp_47-3">d</a> Based on the individual pronunciation of the letters o and k in the language rather than English. </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a> Reading of the spelling without treating it as an abbreviation. </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gesture">Gesture</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/OK_gesture" title="OK gesture">OK gesture</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:OK_Sign.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/OK_Sign.jpg/110px-OK_Sign.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="109" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/OK_Sign.jpg/165px-OK_Sign.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/OK_Sign.jpg/220px-OK_Sign.jpg 2x" data-file-width="416" data-file-height="411" /></a><figcaption>Okay sign</figcaption></figure> In the United States and much of Europe a related <a href="/wiki/Gesture" title="Gesture">gesture</a> is made by touching the index finger with the thumb (forming a rough circle) and raising of the remaining fingers.<a href="#cite_note-FGuide-76">[74]</a> It is not known whether the gesture is derived from the expression, or if the gesture appeared first. The gesture was popularized in the United States in 1840 as a symbol to support then-presidential candidate and incumbent vice president Martin Van Buren. This was because Van Buren's nickname, Old Kinderhook, derived from his hometown of Kinderhook, NY, had the initials O.K.<a href="#cite_note-FGuide-76">[74]</a> Similar gestures have different meanings in other cultures, some offensive, others devotional.<a href="#cite_note-aol-77">[75]</a><a href="#cite_note-78">[76]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Computers">Computers</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Notepad_Font_selection.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/27/Notepad_Font_selection.png/220px-Notepad_Font_selection.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="282" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/Notepad_Font_selection.png 1.5x" data-file-width="279" data-file-height="357" /></a><figcaption>Example of OK and Cancel buttons in Windows Notepad</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Msxbasic.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A blue screen with white text: "MSX BASIC version 3.0 / Copyright 1988 by Microsoft / 23414 Bytes free / Disk BASIC version 1.0 / Ok" and a square representing the cursor. On the bottom line, "color auto goto list run"." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Msxbasic.png/220px-Msxbasic.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Msxbasic.png 1.5x" data-file-width="256" data-file-height="192" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Command_prompt" class="mw-redirect" title="Command prompt">command prompt</a> for user input in <a href="/wiki/MSX_BASIC" title="MSX BASIC">MSX BASIC</a> was <samp style="padding-left:0.4em; padding-right:0.4em; color:var( --color-subtle, #666666);">Ok</samp></figcaption></figure> OK is used to label <a href="/wiki/Button_(computing)" title="Button (computing)">buttons</a> in <a href="/wiki/Dialog_Box#Application_modal" class="mw-redirect" title="Dialog Box">modal dialog boxes</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Error_message" title="Error message">error messages</a> or print dialogs, indicating that the user can press the button to accept the contents of the dialog box and continue. When the dialog box contains only one button, it is almost always labeled OK. When there are two buttons, they are most commonly labeled OK and Cancel. OK is commonly rendered in <a href="/wiki/Upper_case" class="mw-redirect" title="Upper case">upper case</a> and without punctuation: OK, rather than O.K. or Okay. The OK button can probably be traced to user interface research done for the <a href="/wiki/Apple_Lisa" title="Apple Lisa">Apple Lisa</a>.<a href="#cite_note-79">[77]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)" title="Forth (programming language)">Forth</a> programming language prints ok when ready to accept input from the keyboard. This prompt is used on <a href="/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" title="Sun Microsystems">Sun</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple</a>, and other computers with the Forth-based <a href="/wiki/Open_Firmware" title="Open Firmware">Open Firmware (OpenBoot)</a>. The appearance of ok in inappropriate contexts is the subject of some humor.<a href="#cite_note-80">[78]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol" class="mw-redirect" title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol">Hypertext Transfer Protocol</a> (HTTP), upon which the World Wide Web is based, a successful response from the server is defined as OK (with the numerical code <a href="/wiki/HTTP_200" class="mw-redirect" title="HTTP 200">200</a> as specified in RFC 2616). The <a href="/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol" title="Session Initiation Protocol">Session Initiation Protocol</a> also defines a response, 200 OK, which conveys success for most requests (RFC 3261). Some <a href="/wiki/Linux_distribution" title="Linux distribution">Linux distributions</a>, including those based on <a href="/wiki/Red_Hat_Linux" title="Red Hat Linux">Red Hat Linux</a>, display <a href="/wiki/Booting" title="Booting">boot progress</a> on successive lines on-screen, which include [ OK ]. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_Unicode">In Unicode</h3></div> Several <a href="/wiki/Unicode_character" class="mw-redirect" title="Unicode character">Unicode characters</a> are related to visual renderings of OK: <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style>U+1F197 🆗 SQUARED OK</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">U+1F44C 👌 OK HAND SIGN</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">U+1F44D 👍 THUMBS UP SIGN</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">U+1F592 🖒 REVERSED THUMBS UP SIGN</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734">U+1F646 🙆 FACE WITH OK GESTURE</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1455146/ok-most-spoken-word-planet-marks-its-175th-anniversary">"OK, 'most spoken word on the planet', marks its 175th anniversary"</a>. South China Morning Post. 23 March 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=South+China+Morning+Post&rft.atitle=OK%2C+%27most+spoken+word+on+the+planet%27%2C+marks+its+175th+anniversary&rft.date=2014-03-23&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scmp.com%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Farticle%2F1455146%2Fok-most-spoken-word-planet-marks-its-175th-anniversary&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOK" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-CK2021-2">^ <a href="#cite_ref-CK2021_2-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-CK2021_2-1">b</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCouper-Kuhlen2021" class="citation cs2">Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth (17 March 2021), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://benjamins.com/catalog/slsi.34.05cou">"The prosody and phonetics of OKAY in American English"</a>, in Betz, Emma; Deppermann, Arnulf; Mondada, Lorenza; Sorjonen, Marja-Leena (eds.), OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction, Studies in Language and Social Interaction, vol. 34, John Benjamins (published 2021), pp. 131–173, <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1075%2Fslsi.34.05cou">10.1075/slsi.34.05cou</a>, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789027260284" title="Special:BookSources/9789027260284"><bdi>9789027260284</bdi></a>, <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1879-3983">1879-3983</a>, <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:233623150">233623150</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+prosody+and+phonetics+of+OKAY+in+American+English&rft.btitle=OKAY+across+Languages%3A+Toward+a+comparative+approach+to+its+use+in+talk-in-interaction&rft.series=Studies+in+Language+and+Social+Interaction&rft.pages=131-173&rft.pub=John+Benjamins&rft.date=2021-03-17&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1075%2Fslsi.34.05cou&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A233623150%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.issn=1879-3983&rft.isbn=9789027260284&rft.aulast=Couper-Kuhlen&rft.aufirst=Elizabeth&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbenjamins.com%2Fcatalog%2Fslsi.34.05cou&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOK" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeaver2011-3"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBeaver2011_3-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFBeaver2011">Beaver 2011</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-Yngve,_Victor_page_568-4">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Yngve,_Victor_page_568_4-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Yngve,_Victor_page_568_4-1">b</a> Yngve, Victor. "On getting a word in edgewise," page 568. Papers from the Sixth Regional Meeting [of the] Chicago Linguistic Society, 1970. </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBetzSorjonen2021" class="citation cs2">Betz, Emma; Sorjonen, Marja-Leena (17 March 2021), "Introduction: OKAY emerging as a cross-linguistic object of study in prior research", in Betz, Emma; Deppermann, Arnulf; Mondada, Lorenza; Sorjonen, Marja-Leena (eds.), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://benjamins.com/catalog/slsi.34.01bet">OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction</a>, Studies in Language and Social Interaction, John Benjamins (published 2021), pp. 2–28, <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1075%2Fslsi.34.01bet">10.1075/slsi.34.01bet</a>, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789027260284" title="Special:BookSources/9789027260284"><bdi>9789027260284</bdi></a>, <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1879-3983">1879-3983</a>, <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:233639474">233639474</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Introduction%3A+OKAY+emerging+as+a+cross-linguistic+object+of+study+in+prior+research&rft.btitle=OKAY+across+Languages%3A+Toward+a+comparative+approach+to+its+use+in+talk-in-interaction&rft.series=Studies+in+Language+and+Social+Interaction&rft.pages=2-28&rft.pub=John+Benjamins&rft.date=2021-03-17&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1075%2Fslsi.34.01bet&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A233639474%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.issn=1879-3983&rft.isbn=9789027260284&rft.aulast=Betz&rft.aufirst=Emma&rft.au=Sorjonen%2C+Marja-Leena&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbenjamins.com%2Fcatalog%2Fslsi.34.01bet&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOK" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation audio-visual cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UnIDL-eHOs">YouTube</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/1UnIDL-eHOs">Archived</a> from the original on 11 December 2021.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=YouTube&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D1UnIDL-eHOs&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOK" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-bailey-7"><a href="#cite_ref-bailey_7-0">^</a>  • <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBailey2002" class="citation book cs1">Bailey, Richard W. (2002). "Allen Walker Read, American Scholar". Milestones in the History of English in America. By Read, Allen W. Bailey, Richard W. (ed.). Durham, NC: American Dialect Society, Duke University Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Allen+Walker+Read%2C+American+Scholar&rft.btitle=Milestones+in+the+History+of+English+in+America&rft.place=Durham%2C+NC&rft.pub=American+Dialect+Society%2C+Duke+University+Press&rft.date=2002&rft.aulast=Bailey&rft.aufirst=Richard+W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOK" class="Z3988">  • <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBailey2004" class="citation journal cs1">Bailey, Richard W. (December 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150924021442/http://www.generalsemantics.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/61-4-bailey.pdf">"Allen Walker Read, American Scholar"</a> (PDF). ETC: A Review of General Semantics: 433–437. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.generalsemantics.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/61-4-bailey.pdf">the original</a> (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2015.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=ETC%3A+A+Review+of+General+Semantics&rft.atitle=Allen+Walker+Read%2C+American+Scholar&rft.pages=433-437&rft.date=2004-12&rft.aulast=Bailey&rft.aufirst=Richard+W.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.generalsemantics.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F05%2F61-4-bailey.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOK" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-AHD-8">^ <a href="#cite_ref-AHD_8-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-AHD_8-1">b</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=OK">"OK or o·kay"</a>. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Houghton Mifflin.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=American+Heritage+Dictionary+of+the+English+Language&rft.atitle=OK+or+o%C2%B7kay&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ahdictionary.com%2Fword%2Fsearch.html%3Fq%3DOK&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOK" class="Z3988"> (good summary of the results of Read's six articles) </li> <li id="cite_note-read-9"><a href="#cite_ref-read_9-0">^</a> *<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRead1963" class="citation journal cs1">Read, Allen W (1963). "The first stage in the history of "O.K"". American Speech. 38 (1): 5–27. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F453580">10.2307/453580</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/453580">453580</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=American+Speech&rft.atitle=The+first+stage+in+the+history+of+%22O.K%22&rft.volume=38&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=5-27&rft.date=1963&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F453580&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F453580%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Read&rft.aufirst=Allen+W&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOK" class="Z3988"> *<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRead1963" class="citation journal cs1">Read, Allen W (1963). "The second stage in the history of "O.K"". American Speech. 38 (2): 83–102. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F453285">10.2307/453285</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/453285">453285</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=American+Speech&rft.atitle=The+second+stage+in+the+history+of+%22O.K%22&rft.volume=38&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=83-102&rft.date=1963&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F453285&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F453285%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Read&rft.aufirst=Allen+W&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOK" class="Z3988"> *<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRead1963" class="citation journal cs1">Read, Allen W (1963). "Could Andrew Jackson spell?". American Speech. 38 (3): 188–195. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F454098">10.2307/454098</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/454098">454098</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=American+Speech&rft.atitle=Could+Andrew+Jackson+spell%3F&rft.volume=38&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=188-195&rft.date=1963&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F454098&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F454098%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Read&rft.aufirst=Allen+W&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOK" class="Z3988"> *<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRead1964" class="citation journal cs1">Read, Allen W (1964). "The folklore of "O.K."". American Speech. 39 (1): 5–25. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F453922">10.2307/453922</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/453922">453922</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=American+Speech&rft.atitle=The+folklore+of+%22O.K.%22&rft.volume=39&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=5-25&rft.date=1964&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F453922&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F453922%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Read&rft.aufirst=Allen+W&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOK" class="Z3988"> *<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRead1964" class="citation journal cs1">Read, Allen W (1964). "Later stages in the history of "O.K."". American Speech. 39 (2): 83–101. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F453111">10.2307/453111</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/453111">453111</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=American+Speech&rft.atitle=Later+stages+in+the+history+of+%22O.K.%22&rft.volume=39&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=83-101&rft.date=1964&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F453111&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F453111%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Read&rft.aufirst=Allen+W&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOK" class="Z3988"> *<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRead1964" class="citation journal cs1">Read, Allen W (1964). "Successive revisions in the explanation of "O.K."". American Speech. 39 (4): 243–267. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F454321">10.2307/454321</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/454321">454321</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=American+Speech&rft.atitle=Successive+revisions+in+the+explanation+of+%22O.K.%22&rft.volume=39&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=243-267&rft.date=1964&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F454321&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F454321%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Read&rft.aufirst=Allen+W&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOK" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdams1985-10"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAdams1985_10-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFAdams1985">Adams 1985</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-The_Economist-11">^ <a href="#cite_ref-The_Economist_11-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-The_Economist_11-1">b</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.economist.com/node/1403400">"Allen Read"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Economist" title="The Economist">The Economist</a>. 24 October 2002. 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American Speech. 17 (4): 247–250. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F487190">10.2307/487190</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/487190">487190</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=American+Speech&rft.atitle=Some+Folk-Locutions&rft.volume=17&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=247-250&rft.date=1942-12&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F487190&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F487190%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Pound&rft.aufirst=Louise&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOK" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPound1951" class="citation journal cs1">Pound, Louise (October 1951). "Two Queries". American Speech. 26 (3): 223–224. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F453088">10.2307/453088</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/453088">453088</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=American+Speech&rft.atitle=Two+Queries&rft.volume=26&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=223-224&rft.date=1951-10&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F453088&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F453088%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Pound&rft.aufirst=Louise&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOK" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPyles1952" class="citation journal cs1">Pyles, Thomas (May 1952). 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American Speech. 16 (2): 136. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F487427">10.2307/487427</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/487427">487427</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=American+Speech&rft.atitle=Richardson%27s+%27O.+K.%27+of+1815&rft.volume=16&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=136&rft.date=1941-04&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F487427&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F487427%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Wait&rft.aufirst=William+Bell&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOK" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWalser1965" class="citation journal cs1">Walser, Richard (May 1965). 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"A Greek O.K.". American Speech. 17 (2): 127–128. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/486460">486460</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=American+Speech&rft.atitle=A+Greek+O.K.&rft.volume=17&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=127-128&rft.date=1942-04&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F486460%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Weber&rft.aufirst=Robert&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOK" class="Z3988"></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div> <ul><li>Metcalf, Allan. (2011). OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word. Oxford University Press, Oxford. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-537793-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-537793-4">978-0-19-537793-4</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBetzDeppermannMondadaSorjonen2021" class="citation book cs1">Betz, Emma; Deppermann, Arnulf; Mondada, Lorenza; Sorjonen, Marja-Leena (2021). OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction. Studies in Language and Social Interaction 34. John Benjamins. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1075%2Fslsi.34">10.1075/slsi.34</a>. <a href="/wiki/Hdl_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hdl (identifier)">hdl</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10138%2F339675">10138/339675</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789027260284" title="Special:BookSources/9789027260284"><bdi>9789027260284</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:243148719">243148719</a>.</cite><span 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