Word of the day - Okay

I had a finance class today, were doing an analytical financial statement, and we have to determine whether the company from the case given is running 'Good' or 'Bad'. In my textbook, the result shown "Okay" instead of either 'Good' or 'Bad'. So my Finance lecturer, who has a big crush to Bah Kut Teh & Ribena (*swt), he actually explained that the meaning of Okay, is meaning nothing.


The word Okay, (ō-kā') is the right pronunciation, has been a very useful word to neutralize things that you don't really agree nor disagree.

I got a statement from dictionary.com, which can simply explain everything.

Word History: OK is a quintessentially American term that has spread from English to many other languages. Its origin was the subject of scholarly debate for many years until Allen Walker Read showed that OK is based on a joke of sorts. OK is first recorded in 1839 but was probably in circulation before that date. During the 1830s there was a humoristic fashion in Boston newspapers to reduce a phrase to initials and supply an explanation in parentheses. Sometimes the abbreviations were misspelled to add to the humor. OK was used in March 1839 as an abbreviation for all correct, the joke being that neither the O nor the K was correct. Originally spelled with periods, this term outlived most similar abbreviations owing to its use in President Martin Van Buren's 1840 campaign for reelection. Because he was born in Kinderhook, New York, Van Buren was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and the abbreviation proved eminently suitable for political slogans. That same year, an editorial referring to the receipt of a pin with the slogan O.K. had this comment: "frightful letters ... significant of the birth-place of Martin Van Buren, old Kinderhook, as also the rallying word of the Democracy of the late election, 'all correct' .... Those who wear them should bear in mind that it will require their most strenuous exertions ... to make all things O.K."

So here's the joke:

Male Doctor: So what's wrong with you?
Patient: I'm under part very itchy lah doctor~
Male Doctor: (*starring *cough) wait, you didn't stated down your gender, are you a boy or a girl?
Patient: Okay....
Male Doctor: .... so boy or girl?
Patient: I'm a girl lah doctor~ so obvious you can't tell meh~?
Male Doctor: Okay...
Patient: What 'Okay'? Meaning you still doubting my gender?
Male Doctor: I didn't say I disagree
Patient: But you did not agree on me mah~!
Male Doctor: Okay whatever it is, let me check your under part.
Patient: Nah (*open thighs)
Male Doctor: HOLY COW! YOU SAID YOU WERE A GIRL?!
Patient: She-male mar~ (*shy)

Next time when you confront something that you might want to agree or disagree, Say 'Yes' or 'No'