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[...] “issues,” Orin Hargraves got funky, and Stan Carey felt groovy. On his own blog, Carey compared different ways of writing OK and discussed contrastive [...]
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In Choctaw you can also say “ome”. Not sure if either form was present in precolonial times though.
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I’m a few years too late for this thread, but I wonder if “oke” might be descended from old French (Occitan, actually) “òc” which meant “yes” and was derived from Latin “hoc.”
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In reply to <a href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/oke-is-ok/#comment-268155">Andrew</a>. I assumed it was a short form of <i>okay</i>, which has <a...
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