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ru_translateГоспода! Знает ли кто-нибудь этимологию англ. слова OK? Для меня это всегда было загадкой...
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Date: 2003-06-13 02:45 pm (UTC)А из слышанных версий, лично мне, приведенный вариант нравится больше. Он красивее :)
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Date: 2003-06-13 03:15 pm (UTC)A. adj. a. Chiefly in predicative use or as int.: all correct, all right; satisfactory, good; well, in good health; also in phr. O.K. by (someone): acceptable to (that person); freq. used as an exclamation expressing agreement: ‘yes’, ‘certainly’, ‘all right’; also appended to a statement or declaration as a strong form of challenge or appeal in which affirmation or agreement is expected. Also as adv.
1839 C. G. GREENE in Boston Morning Post 23 Mar. 2/2 He..would have the ‘contribution box’, et ceteras, o.k.all correctand cause the corks to fly, like sparks, upward. 1839 Salem Gaz. 12 Apr. 2/3 The house was O.K. at the last concert, and did credit to the musical taste of the young ladies and gents. 1839 Evening Tattler (N.Y.) 2 Sept. 2/2 These ‘wise men from the East’..are right..to play at bowls with us as long as we are willing to set ourselves up, like skittles, to be knocked down for their amusement and emolument. OK! all correct! 1839 Boston Even. Transcript 11 Oct. 2/3 Our Bank Directors have not thought it worth their while to call a meeting, even for consultation, on the subject. It is O.K. (all correct) in this quarter. 1839 Philadelphia Gaz. 12 Nov. 2/1 Yesthat's goodO.K.I.S.B.D. [sc. it shall be done]. 1840 Morning Herald (N.Y.) 30 Mar. 2/1 A few years ago, some person accused Amos Kendall to General Jackson of being no better than he should be. ‘Let me examine the papers,’ said the old hero... The General did so and found every thing right. ‘Tie up them papers,’ said the General... ‘Mark on them, “O.K.”,’ continued the General. O.K. was marked upon them. ‘By the eternal’, said the good old General.., ‘Amos is Ole Kurrek (all correct) and no mistake.’ Ibid. 21 Apr. 2/4
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Date: 2003-06-13 02:38 pm (UTC)С 1964 эта работа считается основным авторитетом по вопросу.
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Date: 2003-06-13 02:53 pm (UTC)например
100 K - hundred killed
50 K - fifty killed
OK - zero killed - уже и OK
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