[Ads-l] aight

[Jesse Sheidlower]

OED has this, with cites for the adjective from 1993 (in the form "I'm ay-aight"), 1999 ("aight"); and for the interjection 1993 ("I-ight"), 2000 ("A-aight").

<Waiting for Fred to improve on this for the ODAAE>

Jesse Sheidlower

On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 07:12:17AM -0400, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/elliot-page-says-christopher-nolan-071350685.html
> 
> [T]he movie was just not very interesting. Whether it was true to the
> source material or not, it was just aight. Nothing new there.
> I've been hearing this in speech, occasionally, for twenty-five years, but
> I've never seen it in print  till now.  Lots in N.
> 
> 2002 _Winston-Salem Journal_ (Jan. 7) D-3 [N]: I'll holla at ya, aight?
> 
> 2003 _Albuquerque Tribune_ (July 5) (Comics) unp. [N]: Black English
> Month...A'ight. I'm down.
> 
> JL
> 
> 
> -- 
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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