"O.K." in Green's Dictionary of Slang

[Jonathan Lighter]

Robin suggests to me the additional possibility that "O K---" in the account
of Mary M'Kinnon is simply an error for "Oh ---" [i.e., followed by a dash].


JL



On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Since extraneous characters crept into the URL, I thought, it might be a
> good idea to shorten it.
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> http://goo.gl/ns0w7
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> On 4/8/2011 2:01 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> http://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-O-K-comes-from-zerO-Killed-a-phrase-us=
> > ed-by-pilots-during-WWII-after-a-mission-without-casualties
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