Ok

An OK on a ' OK' (; spelling variations include ' okay', 'O.K.' , ' ok') is an word denoting approval, acceptance, agreement, assent, or acknowledgment. 'OK' is frequently used as a in other languages.

It has been described as the most frequently spoken or written word on the planet. As an, '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, it can denote compliance ('OK, I will do that'), or agreement ('OK, that is fine').

It can mean 'assent' when it is used as a ('the boss gave his OK to the purchase') or, more colloquially, as a ('the boss OKed the purchase'). 'OK', as an, can express acknowledgment without approval. As a versatile discourse marker or item, it can also be used with appropriate to show doubt or to seek confirmation ('OK?' Or 'Is that OK?' — A West African (Mande and/or Bantu) etymology has been argued in scholarly sources, tracing the word back to the and word waw-kay or the (aka 'Mandinke' or 'Mandingo') phrase o ke. 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. This suggestion has also been mentioned more recently 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 repertoire. Though 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, [ ] one can certainly wonder at the fact that this standard of written proof does not account for the illiteracy in which the West African speakers were kept during the period of slavery in question. The West African hypothesis had not been accepted by 1981 by any etymologists, but nevertheless has since appeared in scholarly sources published by linguists and non-linguists alike.

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Alternative etymologies. — Similarly,, who originally considered it 'very clear that 'o. Is actually in the manuscript', 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.

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'. Cassidy asserts that this is a misreading of the source, which actually begins 'Oh, ki, massa.' , where ki is a phrase by itself: 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. Okay sign In the United States and much of Europe a related is made by touching the index finger with the thumb (forming a rough circle) and raising of the remaining fingers. It is not known whether the gesture is derived from the expression, or if the gesture appeared first. The gesture was popularized in America in 1836 as a symbol to support then Presidential candidate Martin Van Buren. This was because Van Buren's nickname, Old Kinderhook, derived from his hometown of Kinderhook, NY, had the initials O K. Similar gestures have different meanings in other cultures, some offensive. Computers OK is used to label in such as error messages or print dialogs, indicating that the user must press the button to accept the contents of the dialog box and continue.

When a modal dialog box contains only one button, it is almost always labeled 'OK' by convention and, usually rendered to the screen in without punctuation: OK, rather than O.K., Okay, or Ok. The OK button can probably be traced to user interface research done for the. The inspiration was likely the -ok parameter in Unix. The programming language prints ok when ready to accept input from the keyboard.

This prompt is used on,, and other computers with the Forth-based. The appearance of ok in inappropriate contexts is the subject of some humor. In, the HyperText Transfer Protocol, upon which the World Wide Web is based, a successful response from the server is defined as OK (with the numerical code as specified in ).

The also defines a response, 200 OK, which conveys success for most requests (). Some distributions, including those based on, display boot progress on successive lines on-screen, which include [ OK ]. • (1 January 1985)... Retrieved 11 September 2013. • Badger, Herbert Andrew (1971).

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() Etymology 1 [ ] Unknown. Wikipedia lists, of which the most widely accepted is that it is an abbreviation of 'oll korrect', a comical spelling of ' which first appeared in print in The Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, as part of a fad for similar fanciful abbreviations in the United States during the late 1830s (e.g. For 'know yuse', from '; O.W. For 'oll wright', from '). The variant is sometimes said to suggest a origin. Alternative forms [ ] •,,,,,, Noun [ ] OK ( plural ) •;. 2009 August 25,, “ 第 だい２ 話 わ 夢 ゆめヶ 丘 おか 高 こう 校 こう [Chapter 2: Yumegaoka High School]”, in [ ], volume 1 (fiction, in Japanese), Tokyo:,, pages 33–38: その1「 準 ( じゅん ) 備 ( び )」っ Ｏ ( オッ ) Ｋ ( ケー )‼その2「 位 ( い ) 置 ( ち )」っ　お 家 ( うち )の 玄 ( げん ) 関 ( かん ) Ｏ ( オッ ) Ｋ ( ケー )‼その3「 時 ( じ ) 間 ( かん )」っ　7 時 ( じ )30 分 ( ぶん ) Ｏ ( オッ ) Ｋ ( ケー )‼その4「 空 ( くう ) 気 ( かん )」っピッ Ｏ ( オッ ) Ｋ ( ケー )‼その5「 行 ( こう ) 動 ( どう )」っ　レッツらゴ——！ Ｏ ( オッ ) Ｋ ( ケー )‼ Sono ichi “Junbi”h okkē‼ Sono ni “ichi”h Ouchi no genkan okkē‼ Sono san “Jikan”h Shichi-ji sanjū-bun okkē‼ Sono yon “Kūki”h Pih okkē‼ Sono go “Kōdō”h Rettsu ra go——!

Okkē‼ Number 1 “Preparation”, check‼ Number 2 “Location”: Entryway, check‼ Number 3 “Time”: 7:30, check‼ Number 4 “Air” Hwee, check‼ Number 5 “Action”: Let’s la go——! Check‼ See also [ ] • ( ō ) • ( kē ) References [ ]. • ↑ 2006, 大辞林 ( ), Third Edition (in Japanese),:, • 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 ( Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese),:, • ↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 ( ), Fifth Edition (in Japanese),:, Korean [ ] Etymology [ ] From Pronunciation [ ] • () [o̞kʰe̞i] • Phonetic Hangul[ 오 케 이] Revised Romanization okei Revised Romanization (translit.) okei McCune–Reischauer ok'ei Yale Romanization okheyi Noun [ ] OK ( okei) ( hangeul ) • ( ) Antonyms [ ] • Interjection [ ] OK ( okei) ( hangeul ) • ( ) Portuguese [ ] Alternative forms [ ] •, Etymology [ ] Borrowed from. Pronunciation [ ] • ( ) (): /ˌɔ.ˈkej/, /ˌo.ˈkej/ Interjection [ ] OK • ( indicates acknowledgement or acceptance ) Synonyms [ ] •, Noun [ ] OK m ( plural ) • ( an indication of acknowledgement or acceptance ) Swedish [ ] Adverb [ ] OK •, Synonyms [ ] • Adjective [ ] OK •, Synonyms [ ] • Interjection [ ] OK •, Synonyms [ ] •.