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Originally Posted by gmw
It doesn't seem all that surprising. The Wikipedia article says: "There is no consensus on the origins of "okay." Several possibilities exist." and provides a separate page listing many possibilities, including yours.
Not that I'm suggesting Wikipedia is an infallible source, but at least it does provide references to the etymologies it displays. Can you offer anything substantial in support of the one you like? (ETA: That came out a little badly/bluntly, I just mean that without documentation showing the use was actually picked up from that source, however he signed his name, it is no more convincing that some of the other possibilities.) |
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Originally Posted by VydorScope
It surprises me how you can pick one source out of many and call that authoritative when there are disagreeing sources with equal validity.  We do not know for sure where it came from and several well supported options were presented in this thread.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Do you have definitive proof of that? You seem to be remarkably certain of it, when all the other sources say that it's disputed.
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Short of traveling back in time to 1992 to look up the bibliography in the college book labeled Advanced American History in our Constitutional Republic, not really. Apologies for growing up and getting an education during a time when a subjective and editable by anyone Internet wasn't available as facts and answers.