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From: max3@liverpool.ac.uk (Mr P.J. Farrell)
Subject: Re: Most Internation Written Word
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 14:30:48 GMT
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tim@kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw wrote:

: How would "OK" fare as a nearly-universal word?  I bet it's used in far more
: than 19.  Probably more along the lines of 119.
I can personally vouch for having heard it in French, German, Italian, 
Czech, Slovak, Polish, Serbo-Croat (or whatever it's called now), and
among Arabic speakers in Tunisia.
Cynthia K. Wunsch
wunsch@lvt.phil.muni.cz
Disclaimer: I am not now nor have ever been P J Farrell.

