Tiny annoyance

[muck_a_luck]

Here's something that bugs me.

People who don't say "okie dokie" or "okie doke", the accepted forms of this expression of agreement and acknowledgement, but rather say "okie do."

I have never been able to figure out why this bugs me so much.

Then today, I realized.

Okie do sort of sounds like it ought to *be* something. Some form of martial art, possibly. Like Aikido's hick cousin, or something.

*ponders*

*thumps Brain*

Comments

[kalliopeia.livejournal.com]

Is that pronounced like okie doe or okie do (as in ado)? Both are annoying but the first would be maddening.

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

Okie doe. Rhymes with Aikido. And I have known more than one person who did it. It would drive me up the wall. I don't know if somebody used it recently and that is why I was thinking of it.

[alpha-strike.livejournal.com]

And "okie dokie" is better somehow?

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

Yes. I offer no rational explanation (or defense) as to why, though. Probably just because I'm used to it.