| Record ID | marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part37.utf8:121935330:1220 |
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001 2010009709
003 DLC
005 20110626081239.0
008 100308s2011 enk 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010009709
020 $a9780195377934 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPE2831$b.M48 2011
082 00 $a427/.973$221
100 1 $aMetcalf, Allan A.
245 10 $aOK :$bthe improbable story of America's greatest word /$cAllan Metcalf.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2011.
300 $axii, 210 p. ;$c19 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: the ABCs of OK -- A saturday morning in Boston -- 1840: Old kinderhook is OK -- Hoax: Andrew Jackson's misspelling -- Aesthetics: the look and sound of OK -- False origins -- The business of OK -- O.K. clubs -- The literary OK -- Oklahoma is OK -- Okey-dokey -- Modern OK literature -- The Practical OK -- The world and England -- The lifemanship OK -- The psychological OK -- The new American philosophy.
650 0 $aEnglish language$zUnited States$xEtymology.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$xTerminology.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xUsage.
650 0 $aAmericanisms.