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    Posted: June 16 2011 at 14:13
"okey dokey"> is that correct?

Whats the origin of this expression and whats the in-depht meaning??
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Points: 16111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2011 at 14:14
Okie dokie, I say.


It comes from long ago, a phrase passed down from the Greek Gods to whisper meaning into the pitiful lives of mortals.
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Points: 66588 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2011 at 14:14
It rhymes with artichokey, when saying Okey Dokey Artichokey.
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Points: 4321 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2011 at 14:32
Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

Okie dokie, I say.


It comes from long ago, a phrase passed down from the Greek Gods to whisper meaning into the pitiful lives of mortals.


Really?? You mean, like Zeuz, Apolo and stuff like that?
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Points: 32553 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2011 at 14:34
From http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/264800.html

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This little phrase is a variant of okay. It is 20th century American and first appears in print in a 1932 edition of American Speech.

okily-dokilyThere are several alternative spellings - okay-doke, okey-doke, okee-doke, etc. In addition to these is the comic version that has brought the phrase back to popular attention in recent years - The Simpson's Ned Flanders' 'okely-dokely'.

All of them are just a perky reduplicated variants of okay, utilizing that favourite device of two-word phrases - rhyming. As a reduplication it is properly spelled with a hyphen, although it is often given without.

Like okay, 'okey-doke' is used to indicate that all is well, e.g. 'everything is okay here', but may be used when responding positively to a request. That is exemplified in this piece from Colin MacInnes' book City of Spades, 1957:

"One Guinness stout, right, I thank you, okey-doke, here it is."
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Points: 4321 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2011 at 14:44
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

From http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/264800.html

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This little phrase is a variant of okay. It is 20th century American and first appears in print in a 1932 edition of American Speech.

okily-dokilyThere are several alternative spellings - okay-doke, okey-doke, okee-doke, etc. In addition to these is the comic version that has brought the phrase back to popular attention in recent years - The Simpson's Ned Flanders' 'okely-dokely'.

All of them are just a perky reduplicated variants of okay, utilizing that favourite device of two-word phrases - rhyming. As a reduplication it is properly spelled with a hyphen, although it is often given without.

Like okay, 'okey-doke' is used to indicate that all is well, e.g. 'everything is okay here', but may be used when responding positively to a request. That is exemplified in this piece from Colin MacInnes' book City of Spades, 1957:

"One Guinness stout, right, I thank you, okey-doke, here it is."







Wow, thx, man! What a wonderful research work.

So... The Greek God tradition stuff was an apocryphal origin?
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Points: 32553 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2011 at 14:49
Originally posted by desistindo desistindo wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

From http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/264800.html

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Origin

This little phrase is a variant of okay. It is 20th century American and first appears in print in a 1932 edition of American Speech.

okily-dokilyThere are several alternative spellings - okay-doke, okey-doke, okee-doke, etc. In addition to these is the comic version that has brought the phrase back to popular attention in recent years - The Simpson's Ned Flanders' 'okely-dokely'.

All of them are just a perky reduplicated variants of okay, utilizing that favourite device of two-word phrases - rhyming. As a reduplication it is properly spelled with a hyphen, although it is often given without.

Like okay, 'okey-doke' is used to indicate that all is well, e.g. 'everything is okay here', but may be used when responding positively to a request. That is exemplified in this piece from Colin MacInnes' book City of Spades, 1957:

"One Guinness stout, right, I thank you, okey-doke, here it is."







Wow, thx, man! What a wonderful research work.

So... The Greek God tradition stuff was an apocryphal origin?


Apocryphal?  More like μαλακίες.  Wink
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Points: 16111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2011 at 14:55
or I pulled it out of my ass, y'know, whatever.
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Points: 4321 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2011 at 15:00
Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

or I pulled it out of my ass, y'know, whatever.


You would do that, man?Stern Smile
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Points: 24640 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 17 2011 at 14:30
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Originally posted by desistindo desistindo wrote:

Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

or I pulled it out of my ass, y'know, whatever.


You would do that, man?Stern Smile
 
Why not? In Dutch, "Okie dokie" is indeed a common transcription of this manifestation of verbal flatulence. Tongue


Edited by someone_else - June 17 2011 at 14:30
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