The Reformed Gambler, 130
Reminiscences in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer, 97–98
revolutionary OK, 82–83
Rice, Lenny, 153
Richmond Times, 120
Riggs, Jean, 145
The Right Stuff (Wolfe), 168
The Road (McCarthy), 164–65
Roaring Twenties, 148
“Rockabilly Rules OK” (Stray Cats), 179
Rodgers, Richard, 145
Roosevelt, Theodore, 121
rough characters, 129–32
Rowe, W. R., 132–33
rules OK, 178–79
Runyon, Damon, 157–58
Sacramento Record-Union, 120
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 70
St. Paul Daily Globe, 120
St. Petersburg Times, 87
Saturday Night Live, 191
Schele de Vere, Maximilian, 15, 69
Scots English, 91
Scott, Charles P. G., 86
self-empowering OK, 194–95
Shakespeare, William, 5–6
Shepard, Alan, 167–68
Shiloh and Other Stories (Mason), 162
Shipbuilder Theory, 93
Showdown at the Okie-Dokie, 153
Signal Office, 98–100
signing, 100
Silver, Frank, 3
Simpson, Homer, 154
The Simpsons, 148, 154–55
“A Singular Case,” 132
slang gangster, 157–58
ladies’, 128
stigma of, 21
The Slang Dictionary, Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal, 177
Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut), 161–62
Smalley, Stuart, 191
Smith, J. E., 100–101
sniglets, 54
soap, 107–8
soda, 112–13
Some Notes on Lifesmanship (Potter), 182–84
Song of Myself (Whitman), 124
Song of Solomon (Morrison), 162
sooners, 144
space travel first American flight into, 167–68
moon landing, 101–2, 168–69
speech, parts of, 9–12
spelling, 7–9, 126
Spitzer, Eliot, 89
sport, 166
Steinbeck, John, 159
Stewart, Donald Ogden, 139–40
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 124
Straight-out Harrisonian, 47
Stray Cats, 179
Streamline for Health (Hawk), 150
“The Summer Vacation That Was Too Good to Last” (Ade), 136
Sunday Express, 178–79
Sunday Times, 173
“Sweet Evalina” (Hoffman), 133
Sweny, Hugh Willoughby, 173
tabloids, 173
taboo, 20–22
Tammany Society Locofocos, 65
OK and, 43–45
Tan, David, 17
Tarkington, Booth, 109–10
Taylor, Zachary, 73
telegraph, 97–101
text messaging, 7
Thayer, Ernest L., 121
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston), 158
The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship (Potter), 183
Thoreau, Henry David, 124–26
“A Thoughtful Husband,” 131
Thurber, James, 150–51
“Tim Slather’s Ride” (Hurst), 133
Titus Rules OK (King-Smith), 179–80
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 18, 196
tolerance, 19–20, 189, 193, 198
Tombstone, 108–9
The Trail of the Goldseekers (Garland), 134
transactional analysis, 20, 185, 188–90, 193–94
Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy (Berne), 185–86
Trespass, 156
Tropic of Cancer (Miller), 158
20th century, OK in, 147–48, 166
Tyler, John, 42
Ulster English, 91
Unassigned Lands, 144
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 124
United Illuminating Company, 156
United States Telegraph, 59–61
Updike, John, 161
used cars, 110–11
Van Buren, Martin. See also Old Kinderhook
in 1840 election, 14, 41–43
Erie Canal and, 89–90
Jackson and, 57
Vance, Alfred, 173–77, 174
verb, 10–11
very test, 15
Virgil, 144
Vonnegut, Kurt, 161–62
Wahler, Marc-Olivier, 92–94
Wakeman, George, 81–82
Wake Up and Live! (Thurber), 150–51
wakeup call, 4
Walden (Thoreau), 125
Walker, Alice, 162
“Walking in the Zoo” (Vance), 173–77, 174
Wallin, Anne, 197–98
Wall Street Journal, 165
Walser, Richard, 48
Washington Journal, 59
Western Union, 97–98
Whigs, 43–45, 81
Whitman, Walt, 124
“Why Don’t You—Yes But” game, 187–88
Widmer, Edward, 90
Wild West in literature, 132–34
OK Corral in, 108–9
Wilson, Woodrow, 86–87
Winfrey, Oprah, 165
Wolfe, Tom, 162–63, 168
Wolof, 92
Woodbury, Augustus, 118
Woodrow Wilson Leadership Program for Teachers, 197
wordhood, of OK, 12–13
World History Association, 197
World War I, 121
worldwide OK, 171–81
Wright, Allen, 144
Wyman, W. S., 84–86
You Know Me Al (Lardner), 137–38
Zimmer, Ben, 156
ZIP codes, 145
Ziska, John de, 42