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the improbable story of America's greatest word

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An edition of OK (2010)

OK

the improbable story of America's greatest word

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English

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OK: the improbable story of America's greatest word
2010, Oxford University Press
Hardcover in English

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Table of Contents

Introduction: 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.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
Oxford, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
427/.973
Library of Congress
PE2831 .M48 2010, PE2831.M48 2010, PE2831 .M48 2011

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xii, 210p.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24099536M
Internet Archive
okimprobablestor00metc
ISBN 13
9780195377934
LCCN
2010009709
OCLC/WorldCat
551723688

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