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Mariana on It’s a libfix-aganza!It did! Many thanks!
Stan Carey on Where does ‘OK’ come from?John: Yes, it's definitely the other way around! Gerry: Interesting. There are a great many versions of it in use in dif…
Gerry on Where does ‘OK’ come from?According to the Sequiotica guy, some in North America say 'Kai', in imitation of an Aussie accent.
John McGrath on Where does ‘OK’ come from?Lol, I always thought OK was derived from Okey Dokey. Maybe it's the other way around.
Stan Carey on Use ‘bloody’? Not Pygmalion likely!Thanks for your interesting comment, Jeffrey. Melissa Mohr, in her book Holy Shit: A Brief History of Swearing, goes int…