The Idiom Site

[dizzle]

The Idiom Site (http://www.idiomsite.com) a must read for all futurist literalists :wink:

[Piebald]

This will go with www.etymonline.com (http://www.etymonline.com) very well

EDIT: I can't believe All Your Base is now considered an idiom. Stop ruining my culture, intarweb :frown:

[Duder]

Very interesting site - but I think he got the sourse of the idiom "okay" wrong.

I submitted the following to the site owner:


Greetings, Eric -

The possible sourse you gave for the word "OK"
is probably apocryphal. You may be interested
to read this academic paper that convinces me
the word "okay" derives from the Choctaw Indians.

The word "okeh" occurs very frequently in Choctaw
as a kind of catch-all interjection. It is so
commonly used that early Choctaw dictionaries did
not even find it necessary to define.

Dr. Fay argues that "okeh" passed into the
english language in the frontier period, around
the time of the war of 1812, when the Choctaw
language was the most common Native American
tongue known to white Americans.

Matt Phelps
National City CA
____________________

Jim Fay, Ph.D. - "The Choctaw Expression 'Okeh'
and the Americanism 'Okay'" - 2004
http://www.prairienet.org/prairienations/ok.htm

[Trout]

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