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==References== {{refbegin|30em}} * {{cite web|last=Adams|first=Cecil|title=What does "OK" stand for?|url=http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/503/what-does-ok-stand-for|work=[[The Straight Dope]]|access-date=11 September 2013|author-link=Cecil Adams|date=1 January 1985}} * {{cite journal|last=Badger|first=Herbert Andrew|title=A Descriptive Grammar of Mississippi Choctaw|year=1971|publisher=[[University of Southern Mississippi]]|oclc=30845851}} * {{cite journal|last=Beath|first=Paul L.|title='O.K.' in Radio Sign Language|journal=[[American Speech]]|date=October 1946|volume=21|issue=3|page=235|jstor=486779}} * {{cite web|last=Beaver|first=David|title=Not OK|author-link=David Beaver|date=20 February 2011 |work=Language Log |url=http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2979 |access-date=10 December 2014}} * {{cite book|last=Byington|first=Cryus|year=1870|title=Grammar of the Choctaw Language|publisher=McCalla & Stavely |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n1xiSjMTpQgC&q=cyrus+byington}} * {{cite book|last=Byington|first=Cyrus|title=A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language|year=1915|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|url=https://archive.org/details/choctawlanguag00byinrich|author-link=Cyrus Byington}} * {{cite journal|last=Cassidy|first=Frederic G.|title=OKβIs It African?|journal=American Speech|date=Winter 1981|volume=56|issue=4|pages=269β273|jstor=455123|doi=10.2307/455123}} * {{cite journal|last=Eubanks|first=Ralph T.|title=The Basic Derivation of 'O.K.'|journal=American Speech|date=October 1960|volume=35|issue=3|pages=188β192|jstor=453884|doi=10.2307/453884}} * {{cite web|last=Fay |first=Jim |title=The Choctaw Expression "Okeh" and the Americanism "Okay" |url=http://www.illinoisprairie.info/chocokeh.htm |publisher=Illinois Prairie |access-date=11 September 2013 |date=14 July 2007|url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224185657/http://www.illinoisprairie.info/chocokeh.htm |archive-date=24 December 2010}} * {{cite journal|last1=Greco|first1=Frank A.|last2=Degges, Mary|title=The Etymology of OK Again|journal=American Speech|date=AutumnβWinter 1975 |volume=50|issue=3/4|pages=333β335|jstor=3088024|doi=10.2307/3088024}} * {{cite journal|last=Heflin|first=Woodford A.|title='O. K.', But What Do We Know about It?|journal=American Speech|date=April 1941|volume=16|issue=2|pages=87β95|jstor=487428|doi=10.2307/487428}} * {{cite journal|last=Heflin|first=Woodford A.|title='O. K.' and Its Incorrect Etymology|journal=American Speech|date=December 1962|volume=37|issue=4|pages=243β248|jstor=453377|doi=10.2307/453377}} * {{Cite report |author= Hopkins, Nicolas A.|title=The Native Languages of the Southeastern United States |url=http://www.famsi.org/research/hopkins/SouthEastUSLanguages.pdf |publisher=Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc |access-date=11 September 2012 |ref={{harvid|Hopkins}}}} * {{cite book|title=The African Heritage of American English|year=1993|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0253328381|last1=Holloway|first1=Joseph E.|last2=Vass|first2=Winifred Kellersberger|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/africanheritageo00holl}} * {{cite journal|last1=Levin|first1=Harry|author-link=Harry Levin|last2=Gray, Deborah|title=The Lecturer's OK|journal=American Speech|date=Autumn 1983|volume=58|issue=3|pages=195β200|jstor=455226|doi=10.2307/455226}} * {{cite journal|last=Matthews|first=Albert|title=A Note on 'O.K.'|journal=American Speech|date=December 1941|volume=16|issue=4|pages=256β259|jstor=486564|doi=10.2307/486564}} * {{cite book|last=Mencken|first=H. L.|author-link=H. L. Mencken|title=The American Language|year=1936|publisher=[[Alfred A. Knopf]]|location=New York|isbn=0394400755|pages=206β207|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zh7Ma1SCthQC |edition=4th}} * {{cite journal|last=Mencken|first=H. L.|title='O. K.,' 1840|journal=American Speech|date=April 1942|volume=17|issue=2|pages=126β127|jstor=486458|doi=10.2307/486458}} * {{cite book|last=Mencken|first=H. L.|title=The American Language: Supplement I|url=https://archive.org/details/americanlanguage01menc|url-access=registration|year=1945|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|location=New York|isbn=0394400763}} * {{cite magazine|last=Mencken |first=H. L. |title=The Life and Times of O.K. |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |pages=57β61| date=September 24, 1949 |publication-date=1 October 1949 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/archive/1949/10/01/1949_10_01_063_TNY_CARDS_000221526}} * {{cite journal|last=McMillan|first=B.|title='O.K.,' A Comment|journal=American Speech|date=April 1942|volume=17|issue=2|page=127|jstor=486459}} * {{cite journal|last=Pound|first=Louise|title=Some Folk-Locutions|journal=American Speech|date=December 1942|volume=17|issue=4|pages=247β250|jstor=487190|author-link=Louise Pound|doi=10.2307/487190}} * {{cite journal|last=Pound|first=Louise|title=Two Queries|journal=American Speech|date=October 1951|volume=26|issue=3|pages=223β224|jstor=453088|doi=10.2307/453088}} * {{cite journal|last=Pyles|first=Thomas|title='Choctaw' Okeh Again: A Note|journal=American Speech|date=May 1952|volume=27|issue=2|pages=157β158|jstor=454369}} * {{cite magazine|last=Read|first=Allen W.|author-link=Allen Walker Read|title=The Evidence on O.K.|magazine= [[Saturday Review (U.S. magazine)|Saturday Review of Literature]] |pages=3β4, 10β11| date=19 July 1941}} * {{cite journal|last=Rife|first=J. M.|title=The Early Spread of "O. K." to Greek Schools|journal=American Speech|date=October 1966|volume=41|issue=3|page=238|jstor=454033}} * {{cite book|last=Smyth|first=J. F. D.|title=A Tour in the United States of America|year=1784|publisher=G. Robinson|isbn=9780665412226|url=https://archive.org/stream/cihm_41222/cihm_41222#page/n151/mode/2up/search/%22great+fifh%22}} * {{cite journal|last=Wait|first=William Bell|title=Richardson's 'O. K.' of 1815|journal=American Speech |date=April 1941|volume=16|issue=2|pages=136|jstor=487427|author-link=William Bell Wait|doi=10.2307/487427}} * {{cite journal|last=Walser|first=Richard|title=A Boston "O.K." Poem in 1840|journal=American Speech |date=May 1965|volume=40|issue=2|pages=120β126|jstor=453718|doi=10.2307/453718}} * {{cite journal|last=Weber|first=Robert|title=A Greek O.K.|journal=American Speech|date=April 1942 |volume=17|issue=2|pages=127β128|jstor=486460}} {{refend}}
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