Alan Metcalf on CBS talking about "okay"

[Tom Zurinskas]

That's OK, because today is tomorrow in NZ which is OK Day there today here.  But OK day here is not OK there which was OK yesterday.

Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk


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> Poster:       Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at STANFORD.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: Alan Metcalf on CBS talking about "okay"
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> On Mar 22, 2014, at 8:35 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> > On Mar 22, 2014, at 8:21 AM, "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at MST.EDU> wrote:
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> >> I see that longtime Am. Dial. Soc. member  Alan Metcalf was on CBS Sunday(March 16) talking about the word "okay": http://www.cbsnews.com/news/time-for-a-little-word-history-ok/
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> > interesting timing.  tomorrow (March 22) is in fact Okay Day.
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> > arnold
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> whoops. tomorrow (March 23) ...
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