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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 124. Chapters: Engrish, Joual, Big Apple, Oi, Testilying, Okay, Professional student, List of CB slang, Oxford "-er", LOL, Contractions of negated auxiliary verbs in English, Truce term, King of the Gypsies, Jazz, Glossary of 'carny' slang, Going postal, Pinoy, Notions, Digger slang, Zambian slang, Gandhigiri, Dead week, Plastic Paddy, Cooties, Plastic shaman, Madras Tamil, Slang terms for money, Craic, Urban Dictionary, Gaydar, Fanny Adams, Boogie, Fat cat, Yank tank, Shut up, Podunk, List of British bingo nicknames, satrovacki, Gyaru-moji, Control freak, Rookery, Tiptoe, Smart shop, Son of a gun, Jalopy, Lemon, Red tape, Jury rig, U-Haul lesbian, Sesh, Easy rider, 86, Spiv, Homie, Valspeak, K-hole, Square, Cant, Supergrass, Pokemón, West Brit, Hip, Harry Tate, Flip, Swish, Brain fart, Muffin top, Grunge speak, Sociolismo, Slang dictionary, No homo, Smoko, Dagmar bumpers, Korean Language in Contemporary Society, Boondoggle, Straphanger, Whatever, Trailing spouse, Jobsworth, Going commando, Hey, Rube!, See a man about a dog, Young Fogey, Wide boy, Vukajlija, Dunny, Brass razoo, Kaboodle, Full monty, Jesus H. Christ, Awkward Squad, Fresh off the boat, Gopnik, Mexican standoff, Geronimo, Overkill, Who's Yehoodi?, P45, Tinnie, One size fits all, Plop art, Back slang, Ars, Cocalero, Private Sözlük, Humbug, Getting the wind knocked out of you, Snake eyes, The Susso, Wolf ticket, Bule, Rude Britain, Damned yellow composite, Slang abbreviation, Pseudodictionary, Cover your ass, Corpsing, G-Man, Old school, Dog and pony show, Stage Irish, Double-Tongued Dictionary, P.U., Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Cement shoes, Wallflower, Dunn language, Boundary rider, Seddity, Jam sandwich, Pukka sahib, Bafflegab, Gender transposition, Hantec slang, Ridgerunner, Indubil, Gert, Suicide Tuesday, Plonker, Punch-out, Josser, Scarpetta, Ronnie Aloha, Prison slang, Hafta, Activity based Communication Analysis, Bloke, Buckra, Vetti, El Gallego, Willy nilly, Revhead. Excerpt: "Okay" (also spelled "OK," "O.K.") is a colloquial English word denoting approval, assent, or acknowledgment. "Okay" has frequently turned up as a loanword in many other languages. As an adjective, "okay" means "adequate," "acceptable" ("this is okay to send out"), "mediocre" often in contrast to "good" ("the food was okay"); it also functions as an adverb in this sense. As an interjection, it can denote compliance ("Okay, I will do that"), or agreement ("Okay, that's good"). As a verb and noun it means "assent" ("The boss okayed the purchase," and, "The boss gave his okay to the purchase.") It can also be used with sarcasm to show doubt in ones statement. The origins of "okay" are not known with certainty and have been the subject of much discussion over the years. The earliest claimed usage of okay is a 1790 court record from Sumner County, Tennessee, discovered in 1859 by a Tennessee historian named Albigence Waldo Putnam, in which Andrew Jackson apparently said: "proved a bill of sale from Hugh McGary to Gasper Mansker, for a Negro man, which was O.K."What is widely regarded as the earliest known example of the modern "ok" being set down on paper is a quintessential "we arrived ok" notation in the hand-written diary of William Richardson going from Boston to New Orleans in 1815, about a month after the Battle of New Orleans. One entry says "we traveled on to N. York where we arrived all well, at 7 P.M." By most reckonings a later similar entry uses "ok...