Grant recommends the new book, OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word by Allan Metcalf. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Allan Metcalf Book Recommendation”
Martha, I want to share this book with you.
I just got it in the mail.
This is OK, the improbable history of America’s greatest word.
It is the history of OK.
That very American expression that we all use every day that has traveled around the globe
And is used by people who speak a variety of languages.
He has taken it from its earliest days in the early 1800s up through Ned Flanders and Oakley Doakley.
And the author is a colleague of mine, Alan Metcalf.
He teaches at McMurray College in Illinois.
He’s a member of the American Dialect Society, the secretary, longstanding secretary.
And this book will be released in November by Oxford University Press.
And he knows how to write for a popular audience.
His books are very readable.
Very comprehensible.
This is not one of your boring, dry academic treatises.
We’ll share some more about this book on our website when it’s released.
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