World of English: Okey Dokey: 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. 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 Simpsons Ned Flanders okely-dokely. Famously used in the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple oDoom, which interestingly corresponds to that time era, by Short Round, the Vietnamese kid with the hat, who also starred in the Goonies. 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.
Posted on: Mon, 19 May 2014 15:28:06 +0000
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