How to write Okey Dokey?
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Topic: How to write Okey Dokey?
Posted By: desistindo
Subject: How to write Okey Dokey?
Date 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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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date 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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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: June 16 2011 at 14:14
It rhymes with artichokey, when saying Okey Dokey Artichokey.
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Posted By: desistindo
Date Posted: June 16 2011 at 14:32
 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.
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Really?? You mean, like Zeuz, Apolo and stuff like that?
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: June 16 2011 at 14:34
From http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/264800.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/264800.html
Origin
This little phrase is a variant of http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/okay.html" rel="nofollow - okay . It is 20th century American and first appears in print in a 1932 edition of American Speech.
 There
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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Posted By: desistindo
Date Posted: June 16 2011 at 14:44
Epignosis wrote:
From http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/264800.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/264800.html
Origin
This little phrase is a variant of http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/okay.html" rel="nofollow - okay . It is 20th century American and first appears in print in a 1932 edition of American Speech.
There
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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Wow, thx, man! What a wonderful research work.
So... The Greek God tradition stuff was an apocryphal origin?
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: June 16 2011 at 14:49
desistindo wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
From http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/264800.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/264800.html
Origin
This little phrase is a variant of http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/okay.html" rel="nofollow - okay . It is 20th century American and first appears in print in a 1932 edition of American Speech.
There
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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Wow, thx, man! What a wonderful research work.
So... The Greek God tradition stuff was an apocryphal origin?
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Apocryphal? More like μαλακίες. 
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: June 16 2011 at 14:55
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or I pulled it out of my ass, y'know, whatever.
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Posted By: desistindo
Date Posted: June 16 2011 at 15:00
King By-Tor wrote:
or I pulled it out of my ass, y'know, whatever.
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You would do that, man?
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: June 17 2011 at 14:30
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