"In OK [: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word (Oxford U. Press, 2011)] Allan Metcalf tells the story of the most famous and widely used abbreviation in the English language."
"Metcalf’s book is the most complete of the various explanations that have appeared, the first ever in book form, more detailed in some respects even than [Allan Walker] Read’s original papers."
"In OK [: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word (Oxford U. Press, 2011)] Allan Metcalf tells the story of the most famous and widely used abbreviation in the English language."
ReplyDelete"Metcalf’s book is the most complete of the various explanations that have appeared, the first ever in book form, more detailed in some respects even than [Allan Walker] Read’s original papers."
http://www.worldwidewords.org/reviews/re-oka1.htm
That should be Allen Walker Read.
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