OK Day March 23

[aallan at AOL.COM]

The image of the very first citation is now on the OK Day page


http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/OK-Day-March-23/129722790432147


- Allan Metcalf





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From: Dennis Baron <debaron at ILLINOIS.EDU>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Sent: Fri, Mar 4, 2011 5:38 pm
Subject: Re: [ADS-L] OK Day March 23


ok I "liked it" from my iphone. do you have an image of the Boston Morning Post 
page?

Dennis Baron
Department of English
University of Illinois
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana IL 61801

read the Web of Language
http://bit.ly/weblan

On Mar 4, 2011, at 2:13 PM, aallan at AOL.COM wrote:

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> Poster:       aallan at AOL.COM
> Subject:      OK Day March 23
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> As we all know, OK is America's greatest word (or expression?) and most su=
> ccessful linguistic export. Right?
>
> Half a century ago, Allen Walker Read proved beyond a doubt that OK was bo=
> rn on Saturday, March 23, 1839, on the second page of the Boston Morning=
> Post. We all know (or should know) of his magnificent series of articles=
> on the subject in American Speech in the 1960s, reprinted in 2002 in volu=
> me No. 86 of PADS, edited by Richard W. Bailey.
>
> Relying on his copious material, as well as on subsequent documentation an=
> d items dredged from the Internet, I did a book on OK myself, published la=
> st fall by Oxford UP. And that gets me to this request -
>
> Let's celebrate the 172nd birthday of OK this year, on March 23.
>
> How celebrate? Well, any way you want. After all, it's OK.
>
> If you are on Facebook, I'd appreciate it if you'd go to the page I've set=
> up
>
> http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/OK-Day-March-23/129722790432147
>
> and "like" it. If I get 25 likes, it will become a real page.
>
> Thanks! - Allan Metcalf
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