ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD O.K.
Perhaps from o( ll) k( orrect), jocular alteration of all correct.
TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «O.K.»
The term «O.K.» is very widely used and occupies the
887 position in our list of most widely used terms in the
English dictionary.
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10 QUOTES WITH «O.K.»
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We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.
Fame is O.K. I hate it, but it's O.K. I'm beginning to understand how I can be hidden. It's an attitude.
We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.
I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.
The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.
I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'
My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George.
Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «O.K.»
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With spare yet comforting illustrations and text, Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld celebrate the real skills and talents children possess, encouraging and empowering them to discover their own individual strengths and personalities.
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OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word
Allan Metcalf, a renowned popular writer on language, here traces the evolution of America's most popular word, writing with brevity and wit, and ranging across American history with colorful portraits of the nooks and crannies in which OK ...
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Everything Is Going to Be
OK
This pocket-sized volume is filled with artwork bearing mottos of encouragement and affirmation.
This practical guide to Transactional Analysis is a unique approach to your problems.
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OK!: The Story of Oklahoma!
Revised and updated to include a special section on the Roayl National Theatre's production that Cameron Mackintosh is presenting on Broadway in spring of 2002, OK! The Story of "Oklahoma!" celebrates this watershed work that has taken its ...
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It's
OK to Tell: A Story of Hope and Recovery
Recounts the author's years of abuse by her nanny and her fight to recover and embrace life.
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Radiohead's
OK Computer
Through close musical analysis of each song, Dai Griffiths explores the themes and ideas that have made this album resonate so deeply with its audience, and argues that OK Computer is one of the most successfully realized CD albums so far ...
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Radiohead: welcome to the machine :
OK computer and the ...
Released in 1997 before the advent of downloadable singles, looks at the composition of Radiohead's "OK Computer" album, examining the themes and artistic and political influences of the album created to be listened to in its entirety.
And for a huge portion of the population, that position is "I'm Not OK -- You're OK." This negative "life position," shared by successful and unsuccessful people alike, contaminates our rational Adult capabilities, leaving us vulnerable to ...
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Are Angels
OK?: The Parallel Universes of New Zealand ...
With topics that include the curvature of space time, wave particle duality, the untimely death of Schrodinger's cat, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, dark energy, and the end of the universe, this extraordinary guide artfully blends ...
Paul Callaghan, Paul T. Callaghan, Bill Manhire, 2006