{"id":1042,"date":"2011-02-21T14:18:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T14:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2025-04-06T15:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T15:01:59","slug":"ok-ok-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/21\/ok-ok-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"OK? OK! OK."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/OK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/OK-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"OK\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1043\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/OK-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/OK.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>We all use this one simple word many times every day, in many different contexts, without even thinking about it.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIs that OK?\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cOK! That sounds great!\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cOh, OK.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But why do we use OK and not something else? According to Allan Metcalf, author of a new book on the history of OK, one reason is that it provides neutrality, \u201ca way to affirm or to express agreement without having to offer an opinion\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The use of OK used to be restricted to business contexts (o.k. meant that a document was \u201call correct\u201d) and was associated by some people with illiteracy. Now however, it\u2019s used by everyone in except in formal settings \u2013 speeches and reports for example. If you&#8217;re interested, it\u2019s well worth reading the rest of the article by Metcalf over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-12503686\">BBC News<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all use this one simple word many times every day, in many different contexts, without even thinking about it. \u201cIs that OK?\u201d \u201cOK! That sounds great!\u201d \u201cOh, OK.\u201d But why do we use OK and not something else? According to Allan Metcalf, author of a new book on the history of OK, one reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,44],"tags":[3,51,955,956,44],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-words","tag-english","tag-language","tag-ok","tag-usage","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}