(thing) by tool Mon Jun 17 2002 at 13:27:02
Supposedly a Cherokee word, pronounced much the same as and the genesis of okay.

The latter term, the etymology of which nobody is quite sure, stuck, whereas the 'okeh' did not.

Woodrow Wilson, apparently, was the first to use this form, around 1919.
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