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Subject:Re: OK/okay From:"Mark L. Levinson" <mark -at- MEMCO -dot- CO -dot- IL> Date:Fri, 16 May 1997 11:08:06 +0300
I use the spelled-out "okay" because it can take suffixes.
I mean you might want to mention that something has been okayed,
or that someone is okaying something... assuming that the thing
is okayable...
By the way, some contend that the O is a misunderstanding of a
German script A and that the original abbreviation, standing for
Alles Korrekt, was commonly scrawled by a German advisor during
the American War of Independence.
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