{"id":3185,"date":"2010-08-08T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2010-08-08T10:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T17:00:24","slug":"will-omg-go-the-way-of-ok-a-facetious-phrase-that-became-commonplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/08\/08\/will-omg-go-the-way-of-ok-a-facetious-phrase-that-became-commonplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Will OMG go the way of OK? (A facetious phrase that became commonplace.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy saying &#8220;oh em gee&#8221; and wonder if my grandchildren will still use this phrase just as we still use the phrase &#8220;oh kay&#8221; which in its time was also a facetious phrasing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/index.php?term=ok\">Etymonline<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1839, only survivor of a slang fad in Boston and New York c.1838-9 for abbreviations of common phrases with deliberate, jocular misspellings (cf. K.G. for &#8220;no go,&#8221; as if spelled &#8220;know go&#8221;); in this case, &#8220;oll korrect.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/okay\">Merriam-Webster<\/a> as paraphrased in Wikipedia:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This apparently resulted from a fad for comical abbreviations that flourished in the late 1830s and 1840s. The abbreviation in this case is from the misspelled &#8220;oll korrect.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy saying &#8220;oh em gee&#8221; and wonder if my grandchildren will still use this phrase just as we still use the phrase &#8220;oh kay&#8221; which in its time was also a facetious phrasing: Etymonline: 1839, only survivor of a slang fad in Boston and New York c.1838-9 for abbreviations of common phrases with deliberate,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}