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Cargando... OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Wordpor Allan Metcalf
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Is there enough worth saying about this one word to fill a book, even a short book? Yes, but only barely. I found some interesting material stretched thin across too many pages and with too much scaffolding. If you're ambivalent about your logophilia, pass on this. ( ) On okay book. I've known for a long time that OK was short for "oll korrect," a joking misspelling of "all correct" from Boston in 1839. Here is a book explaining all this and how OK evolved into the term it is today. There's even a chapter on folk and false etymologies of OK, of which there are many. It drags in spots, but it is pretty good if you are interested in such things. A quick read. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
It is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, more common than an infant's first word ma or the ever-present beverage Coke. It was even the first word spoken on the moon. It is ""OK""-- the most ubiquitous and invisible of American expressions, one used countless times every day. Yet few of us know the secret history of OK--how it was coined, what it stood for, and the amazing extent of its influence. Allan Metcalf, a renowned popular writer on language, here traces the evolution of America's most popular word, writing with brevity and wit, and ranging across Ameri No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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