Ok or Okay

[B Calm]

Ok = Oklahoma

Okay = yes

Any questions

[Downwinder]

1. Debatable

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/OK

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ok

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/OK

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/OK

http://www.yourdictionary.com/ok

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK

[ret5hd]

2. OK, in response to a direct question means the affirmative...

Okaaaaaaaay

means something completely different.

[pinboy3niner]

3. 's alright!

[CTyankee]

5. "Easy for you, difficult for me, Senor Wences!"

Too funny. What one guy could do with his voice, a box, his hand with lipstick and a handkerchief!

[pinboy3niner]

8. He was a true artist

When his name came up in a thread recently, one comment knocked "what passed for entertainment." But Wences WAS entertaining, and funny. And besides being entertained, we marveled at his mastery of his craft. He just made it LOOK easy...

[olddots]

14. I am now Jello

thanks pinboy I need medication to erase that little ditty from my head .

[pinboy3niner]

22. Sorry, olddots. Maybe this will help...

[frogmarch]

4. A writing teacher told our class

to use "okay" in story dialogue, never "OK."

"Okay," Joe said. "Let's go."

I rarely use "OK," but I sometimes do in forum posts and emails to my kids and my friends.

[RebelOne]

17. I was a copy editor for many outdoor magazines,

and our style was to use OK.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. "Okie-dokie."

[Wounded Bear]

7. B Calm or Be calm? nt

[AsahinaKimi]

9. Okie Doki..

Mr. Smoki

[pinboy3niner]

10. No prob

[Quantess]

11. okej in swedish

[petronius]

12. OH, OK.

HI!

[bluesbassman]

13. K

OMG! I've been texting too much with the kids!

[cliffordu]

15. Shaw 'Nuff

Thank you Dizzy and Yardbird.

[pinboy3niner]

16. I H8 it!

[Boom Sound 416]

18. OK - Oklahoma

[rug]

19. HI

= Hawai'i

[MiddleFingerMom]

20. BOTH -- Okay, OK:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay,_Oklahoma
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[pinboy3niner]

21. Alrighty then...

[Recursion]

23. No word of such widespread use is of such uncertain etymology

There simply is no convincing single theory of the terms origin, and so no way of knowing the "correct" spelling. (Woodrow Wilson would have it as "okeh", incidentally.)

That said, it is the most widely-understood lexeme in the world.

[LWolf]

24. No.

Okay: standard spelling.
Ok: abbreviation

OK: Oklahoma

[Quantess]

25. A woman introduced herself as Um Okay

Actually her name was Emma Kay, poor thing.

[Lex]

26. Ok existed before Oklahoma.

amirite?