Variation Where used / Origins okeh Choctaw word for ' it is so ' (see above). An alternative English spelling, no longer common, although it remained in sporadic use well into the 20th century. Also see Okeh Records. hokay Used in English as an alternative. kay or ' kay Notably used in Herman Wouk 's The Caine Mutiny as a filler word by the maniacal Captain Queeg. k or kk or oka Commonly used in instant messaging, or in SMS messages. Before the days of SMS, "K '' was used as a Morse code prosign for "Go Ahead ''. Okie dokie This slang term was popularized in the film "The Little Rascals '' (Oki doki). The phrase can be extended further, e.g. "Okie dokie (aka) pokie / smokie / artichokie / karaoke / lokie, '' etc. ôkê Used in Vietnam; okey also used, but ok more commonly. okei Used in Norwegian, Icelandic, Finnish and Estonian (together with OK or ok) okey Used in Catalan, Faroese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish, sounding similar to the English pronunciation OK. okej Used in Swedish, Serbo - Croatian, Slovene, Polish, Macedonian and sometimes Latvian; ok also used, but less common. oké Used in Dutch and Hungarian. In Dutch, oke, ok and okay are also used, but are less common in the formal written language. ookoo Used in Finland. Pronounced the same way as "OK ''; the spelling arises from the pronunciation of the individual letters in Finnish. oquei and ocá Nowadays, rarely used in Portuguese, but once a fad in Brazil. Pronounced as the English OK or following the names of the letters in Portuguese (oh - kah). In written Portuguese, still very much used as OK. oukej Used in Czech and Slovak. Pronounced as the English OK. When written OK, it is pronounced (o: ka:). Neither version recognized as official. owkej Used in Maltese. Pronounced as the English "OK ''. oukei Used in colloquial Afrikaans. Pronounced also as "OK ''. O.K Used in Greek. The abbreviation is pronounced as the English OK. A-OK A more technical - sounding variation popularized by NASA in 1961. M'kay Slang term popularized by South Park TV show. Pronounced also as "Mmmm K ''. This variation has connotations of sarcasm, such as condescending disagreement. Okily Dokily! Catchphrase used by Ned Flanders in The Simpsons.
where does the phrase okie dokie come from
the film "The Little Rascals ''