Why do we say "O.K."?

[Bo Diddley]

And the lesser used BOHICA.

[happyone]

And the lesser used BOHICA.

a couple more unofficial military acronyms using the military's favorite word - I heard it used as a verb, noun, adjective and adverb. I don't think I ever heard used a a prepositition, but I may be wrong

BUFF - B-52
SLUF - A-7 (I don't think anyone flies this any more)

FIDO

[Bo Diddley]

a couple more unofficial military acronyms using the military's favorite word - I heard it used as a verb, noun, adjective and adverb. I don't think I ever heard used a a prepositition, but I may be wrong

BUFF - B-52
SLUF - A-7 (I don't think anyone flies this any more)

FIDO

Haha. You're absolutely right. Noun, proper noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, suffix, prefix, but not a preposition that I can remember hearing.

[All-American]

Gerald Lund took a very large and seemingly unnecessary digression in writing the Work and the Glory to address this. It seems newspapers in the first half of the 19th century took some pleasure out of misspelling phrases, such as "all correct." Thus, when everything was satisfactory, they would report that it was "oll korrect," or "O.K." for short. The quirky usage likely would have faded into oblivion had Old Kinderhook not taken it up as a rallying cry, campaigning on the basis that Old Kinderhook was O.K.-- a slogan which, if used now, would be considered the most honest presidential campaign in history. (Vote, e.g., Hickenlooper-- he's okay!) The repeated usage was just enough to cement the phrase into common jargon, and now the term o.k. has survived both the age of humorous misspellings and Mr. Your Cause is Just But I can do Nothing For You himself.

[hostile]

And the lesser used BOHICA.

The end of year party for residents thrown by the department of surgery where I trained was called BOHICA.

[Copelius]

Gerald Lund took a very large and seemingly unnecessary digression in writing the Work and the Glory.

FIFY

[falafel]

Gerald Lund took a very large and seemingly unnecessary digression in writing the Work and the Glory to address this. It seems newspapers in the first half of the 19th century took some pleasure out of misspelling phrases, such as "all correct." Thus, when everything was satisfactory, they would report that it was "oll korrect," or "O.K." for short. The quirky usage likely would have faded into oblivion had Old Kinderhook not taken it up as a rallying cry, campaigning on the basis that Old Kinderhook was O.K.-- a slogan which, if used now, would be considered the most honest presidential campaign in history. (Vote, e.g., Hickenlooper-- he's okay!) The repeated usage was just enough to cement the phrase into common jargon, and now the term o.k. has survived both the age of humorous misspellings and Mr. Your Cause is Just But I can do Nothing For You himself.

Ten years too late!

[Bo Diddley]

The end of year party for residents thrown by the department of surgery where I trained was called BOHICA.

Was that in reference to how residents are treated?

[Moliere]

Reminds me of the time my bishop used BFE during bishopric meeting.

[hostile]

Was that in reference to how residents are treated?

Pretty much. This was before residents were limited to 80h/week

[clackamascoug]

I think SNAFU has a PG version too as being "fouled up" while retaining the original intent. The R or PG designation is left to the listener, and has a safe harbor usage for church and pulpit.

[All-American]

Ten years too late!

This is what I hate about thread-bumping. Just start a new fricking thread.

[Bo Diddley]

This is what I hate about thread-bumping. Just start a new fricking thread.

Actually, it's what I like about thread bumping. Differnt folks, differnt strokes.

[Pelado]

Actually, it's what I like about thread bumping. Differnt folks, differnt strokes.

[Bo Diddley]

I was in my 30s before I found out snafu was not something a lady should say.

We just had a discussion at home. My daughter used the term SNAFU, and I told her what the acronym meant. Neither she nor the missus believed me, so the missus asked Google. I was hoping Google would read it to her aloud.