First of all, who died and made AP Stylebook the grand arbiter of how to spell shit? THIS TWEET MADE ME FURIOUS!!!
AP Style tip: OK, OK’d, OK’ing, OKs. Don’t use okay. OK?
— AP Stylebook (@APStylebook) October 20, 2015
Second of all, I’ve spelled “OKAY” as “OKAY” my entire life (because that’s the way you fucking spell it), and I have NO intention of stopping, OKAY?!? “Okay” is a WORD, and a short WORD at that! There is no need to abbreviate it, unless you’re an idiot teenager who texts on their phone all day and never learned to spell. But don’t worry, I delivered the sickest of burns to those dummies at AP Stylebook, to wit:
.@APStylebook So instead of “okey dokey,” you think it should be OK-DO-K? We accept your resignation.
— Wm. Steven Humphrey (@WmSteveHumphrey) October 20, 2015
HAHAHAAA! I can see them now, sitting in their fancy New York offices, fuming in impotent rage courtesy of my wicked sick burn. SORRY, AP Stylebook, but if you mess with the bull, you’re gonna get the horns… OKAY?!?
And just to drive my point home a bit further…
Put away the “Special Kay” cereal and get with the program, Steve. “Okay” is merely Pig Latin for “ko,” which is meaningless. Therefore, your opinion is meaningless. As usual.
#TeamOkay
Sorry but it’s OK all the way.
Sorry but no-kay.
Sure, Wm. You can elongate things unnecessarily if you want to. This is the You Ess Eh.
“OK stands for ‘oll korrect’, or ‘ole kurreck’, and comes from an abbreviation trend which was popular in Boston, MA, back in the 1830s. Other popular abbreviations at the time were NG, (‘no go’), GT (‘gone to Texas’) and SP (‘small potatoes’).”
from the google
I realize this is probably an attempt at humor, or maybe you really need to believe they some how care. Pretty sure you can spell it anyway you want to. Mocking “mentally deficient ” people is a shitty thing to do by the way.
Stylebooks are a tool. As a writer, I can choose which tool I use…or not. If you live in a world ruled by the AP Stylebook- or any other- I’d submit you might want to lighten up a bit. Like any tool, a stylebook can help improve the consistency of your writing…but, at least for me, it shouldn’t define how and what I write.