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OK or Okay?
Do you think it is better to use okay or OK when writing dialogue and narrative in a novel?
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8 Replies
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Yes, depending on genre and style.
Some genres will feel better with one, some with the other. Some genres would find the term itself to be anachronistic.
It’s one of those questions to which the only valid answer is “whatever feels right for what you’re writing.”
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I like agree with RIck like. If you like want to like reach the yoof market like then like don’t use OK like. Just like use cool like.
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Just thirty mins ago researched this. Concenus seems to be OK caps. Or, Okay. But as usual, in practice, it doesnt really matter. I opted to change all from Okay to OK.
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Why did you opt to go from Okay to OK? (I’ve been thinking of making the switch the other way around.)
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Just the concensus of the researchers. I think its Oxford English preferred. But it doesnt really matter, the important thing seems to be that it looks ok or okay or OK on the page.
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I elected to stick with ‘okay’. I prefer to minimalise word capitalisation for aesthetic reasons – maybe due in part to the amount of times it featured in my first MS (before editing). Could have gone with ‘ok’ but felt ‘okay’ flowed better on the page, especially when opening a sentence.
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I’m a little old fashioned and always write ‘okay’ but in my last two books (copyedited by different people and at different publishers) all my ‘okays’ were changed to OK. I think the most important thing is consistency though.
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Or you could get the xkcd take on this question…
