Timeline for What are the origins of the "okay" hand signal?
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| Oct 1, 2019 at 17:01 | comment | added | Tom Sol | @Lucian Actually yes. As an expression of assent and approval. The gesture cam be traced back to first century Rome where the rhetorician Quintilian is recorded as having used it. | |
| Oct 1, 2019 at 16:47 | comment | added | Lucian | @Tom: Is the meaning of the older-than-the-word-OK hand gesture the same as (or, at the very least, similar to) that of the word OK ? | |
| Sep 30, 2019 at 17:30 | comment | added | Tom Sol | @Lucian This is older than the word ok, so saying it is "simple fingerspelling" seems a little too simple... | |
| Sep 28, 2019 at 0:39 | comment | added | Lucian | It is a simple fingerspelling of the word's two letters, O and K. | |
| Mar 13, 2018 at 16:00 | comment | added | user1618 | Here in Britain I've only ever seen it used to mean "OK" or, with more stress, and probably more often, "perfect" or "great job" or "just as it should be", expressing praise or satisfaction. | |
| Mar 12, 2018 at 21:32 | answer | added | DukeZhou | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 12, 2018 at 3:17 | history | asked | user1618 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |