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ARE YOU OK?
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By Shelley Gollust from Voice of America
Are you Ok?
Millions of people all over the world use the word okay. In fact, some people say the word is used more often than any other word in the world. Okay means “all right” or “acceptable”. It expresses agreement or approval. You might ask your brother, “Is it okay if I borrow your car?” Or if someone asks you to do something, you might say, “Okay, I will.”
ETYMOLOGY
It may be common, but language expert do not agree about where the word come from. Some people say it came from the Native American Indian tribe known as the Choctaw. The Choctaw word okeh means the same as the American word okay. Experts say early explorers in the American West spoke the Choctaw language in the 19th century. The language spread across the country, but many people dispute this.
THAT’S CORRECT
Language expert Allen Walker Read wrote about the word okay in reports published in the 1960s. he believed that people first used the word in the 1830s. It was a short way of writing a different spelling of the words “all correct.” Some foreign-born people wrote “all correct” as “o-l-l k-o-r-r-e-c-t,” and used the letters O.K.
Other people say that a railroad worker named Obadiah Kelly invented the word long ago. They say he put the first letters of his name – O and K – on each object people gave him to send on the train. Still, others say a political organization invented the word. The organization supported Martin Van Buren for president in 1840. They called their group the OK Club. The letters were taken from the name of the town where Martin Van Buren was born – Old Kinderhook, New York. Not everyone agrees with this explanation, either. But experts do agree that the word is purely American. And it has spread to almost every country on Earth.
THE SPACE AGE
Then there is the expression A-Okay. This means everything is fine. A-Okay is a space-age expression. It was used in 1961 during the flight of astronaut Alan Sheppard. He was the first American to be launched into space. His flight ended when his spacecraft landed in the ocean, as planned. Sheppard reported: “Everything is A-Okay.”
THE SIMPSONS!
However, some experts say the expression did not begin with the space age. One story says it was first used during the early days of the telephone to tell an operator that a message had been received. There are also funny ways to say okay. Some people say okey-dokey or okey-doke. These expressions were first used in the 1930s. Today, a character on the American television series, ‘The Simpsons’, says it another way. Homer Simpson’s irritating neighbour Ned Flanders says, “Okely-dokely.”
Are you Ok?
Millions of people all over the world use the word okay. In fact, some people say the word is used more often than any other word in the world. Okay means “all right” or “acceptable”. It expresses agreement or approval. You might ask your brother, “Is it okay if I borrow your car?” Or if someone asks you to do something, you might say, “Okay, I will.”
ETYMOLOGY
It may be common, but language expert do not agree about where the word come from. Some people say it came from the Native American Indian tribe known as the Choctaw. The Choctaw word okeh means the same as the American word okay. Experts say early explorers in the American West spoke the Choctaw language in the 19th century. The language spread across the country, but many people dispute this.
THAT’S CORRECT
Language expert Allen Walker Read wrote about the word okay in reports published in the 1960s. he believed that people first used the word in the 1830s. It was a short way of writing a different spelling of the words “all correct.” Some foreign-born people wrote “all correct” as “o-l-l k-o-r-r-e-c-t,” and used the letters O.K.
Other people say that a railroad worker named Obadiah Kelly invented the word long ago. They say he put the first letters of his name – O and K – on each object people gave him to send on the train. Still, others say a political organization invented the word. The organization supported Martin Van Buren for president in 1840. They called their group the OK Club. The letters were taken from the name of the town where Martin Van Buren was born – Old Kinderhook, New York. Not everyone agrees with this explanation, either. But experts do agree that the word is purely American. And it has spread to almost every country on Earth.
THE SPACE AGE
Then there is the expression A-Okay. This means everything is fine. A-Okay is a space-age expression. It was used in 1961 during the flight of astronaut Alan Sheppard. He was the first American to be launched into space. His flight ended when his spacecraft landed in the ocean, as planned. Sheppard reported: “Everything is A-Okay.”
THE SIMPSONS!
However, some experts say the expression did not begin with the space age. One story says it was first used during the early days of the telephone to tell an operator that a message had been received. There are also funny ways to say okay. Some people say okey-dokey or okey-doke. These expressions were first used in the 1930s. Today, a character on the American television series, ‘The Simpsons’, says it another way. Homer Simpson’s irritating neighbour Ned Flanders says, “Okely-dokely.”
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This interesting explanation gives proof that I was a bit overconfident with my understanding.
I'd been sure that the word came from the initial letters of the words ' all killed ', getting the ' o ' from the way ' all ' is pronounced.
Only just in a war context, obviously, it would have meant ' the danger is over, all enemies killed '.
However I've read that when the pilots communicate the flight's data, they often use either ' roger ' or ' charlie '.
' roger ', would stand for ' all right, I've got it, I'm going to perform that at once, okay ', as you also say it's the use the military do.
' charlie ', would stand for ' exactly true, I confirm, yes '.
They usually repeat ' charlie ' twice, in order to signify that they really confirm.
He claimed he didn't know the reason why these two words are being used; maybe, he dared to say, because they sound good.