How do you write a whole book about one word with only two letters?
My old college journalism professor Allan Metcalf has done it with “OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word,” recently published by Oxford University Press Inc.
How many times a day do you say “OK”? The word started off as a newspaperman’s joke in the 1800s and is now the most widely used word on the planet, Metcalf says.
It’s also one of the most honest words you’ll hear. If someone says a product or service is OK, the assertion is rarely challenged. In fact, the word is so fundamentally honest, it has rarely proven useful for marketers and advertisers.
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