| 词组 | O.K., OK, okay |
| 释义 | O.K., OK, okay 1. Spelling. The spellings O.K., OK, and okay are the predominant ones today. We find a few publishers that use ok and o.k., but they are in the minority. We have a Canadian instance of okeh, the form preferred by Woodrow Wilson because he believed it to be a Choctaw word meaning "it is so." There is little to choose in frequency between the first three forms at the present time. Okay may be slightly ahead of O.K. and OK. Some commentators—Reader's Digest 1983, for example—prefer okay because when used as a verb it has the advantage of taking regular inflections without apostrophes. 2. O.K. is used as an adjective, adverb, noun, and verb. It has been a bugbear of the college handbook from MacCracken & Sandison 1917 to Trimmer & McCrimmon 1988. You may safely infer from this that it is not okay to use O.K. in a freshman English paper. Flesch 1983 and Reader's Digest 1983 both point out that O.K. is widely used on a much higher level than the college handbooks and usage panels are willing to recognize. Flesch says that it has long been in standard use, not only in this country, but throughout the English-speaking world. The OED Supplement supports this view by showing examples of use in British English since the 1860s. As an example of the high status of O.K., Flesch cites William F. Buckley, Jr. Here are a few examples from our files: • No OK comparison is too OK for the Hitchcock exe-getes —Stanley Kauffmann, Before My Eyes, 1980 • All this has been okayed by the Hays Office, Good Housekeeping and the survivors of the Haymarket Riots —Groucho Marx, letter, 1945 • ... and feel O.K. about ourselves in transit —Jay Mclnerney, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 24 Mar. 1985 • On April 4, the Fed OK'd an acquisition of a Columbus, Ohio thrift —Wallstreet Jour., 12 Apr. 1982 • ... he starts out with a couple of Ole and Lena jokes, which they like okay —Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days, 1985 • With the old school, it's OK, too —Mary McGrory, Boston Globe, 22 July 1984 • I infer that that would be okay with you fellows — John O'Hara, letter, 30 July 1956 • The sommelier looked particularly taken aback. But La Vanderbilt merely smiled sweetly, reasoning that it must be the OK thing to do —Callan, Punch, 6 Mar. 1974 • Every project has received Brooke Astor's personal okay —Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Architectural Digest, May 1986 • ... constituting the first new viral vaccine okay by the FDA in a decade —Science News, 26 Dec. 1981 The inescapable conclusion is that the handbooks are looking backward and not at contemporary usage. O.K. (or OK or okay) is widely used on every level of speech and on all levels of writing except the stodgiest. Unless you are taking freshman English, you can use it freely. |
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