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Okay
O. K.
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🆗
Oh, Kay!
K
'kay
0k
Mmmkay
оκ (homograph attack edition)
Olle Korrekt.
"oll korrect"
Immortalized.
"And stop saying OK all the time, okay?"
...... ok.
Did not think Oklahoma was that popular but okay
🎶 … where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain 🎶
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I wonder if future societies will look back and think we pronounced it as one sound like "ock"
Since it exists in about 10 different written forms... No.
Ok
"Yea, OKAY"
The fact that there are 2 the's in this title makes me question that....
... but then you remembered that there are 8,000 languages in the world other than English, and recalled that "ok" has been borrowed into a ton of them.
Surprised it isn't the bazillion iterations of mom.
It's got a ring to it, okay? Geez.
It's the one word I can pick out when my wife is speaking Tagalog. That and the occasional Spanish phrase.
Yeah, I think I've heard literally all of my international colleagues use it talking to each other. German, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese...
I'm surprised it isn't 'fuck'
OK.
Okay
Noooo I can't believe I read all of that I nées to go est ;-;