Media
In 2018, two professional websites took my creations as inspiration for their own productions. For Vox, Coleman Lowndes managed to encapsulate my whole book on OK in a brilliantly illustrated fast-moving five-minute video, "Why We Say OK."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UnIDL-eHOs
An illustrated history of the American Dialect Society's annual vote on Words of the Year, which I began, was created by another website, Insider.
https://www.thisisinsider.com/every-word-of-the-year-2018-10#1997-millennium-bug-8
CBS Sunday Morning
Interviewed by Mo Rocca about OK
March 16, 2014
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/time-for-a-little-word-history-ok/
C-SPAN: Go to
https://www.c-span.org/
and search for "Allan Metcalf"
to find me March 25, 2017 at the Virginia Festival of the Book in a panel discussion "Word Salad or Word Solid? Malapropisms and New Coinages" with Robert Rubin.
Also in that C-SPAN search for "Allan Metcalf," find me interviewed November 24, 1997 by Brian Lamb about my book (with David Barnhart) America in So Many Words.
On the birthday of OK, America's greatest word
WGBH - NPR radio in Boston
http://wgbhnews.org/post/how-boston-created-american-philosophy-2-letters-ok
Talkin' about the new governor of Illinois
WUIS - NPR in Springfield, Ill.
http://wuis.org/post/lookin-gov-rauners-missing-gs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UnIDL-eHOs
An illustrated history of the American Dialect Society's annual vote on Words of the Year, which I began, was created by another website, Insider.
https://www.thisisinsider.com/every-word-of-the-year-2018-10#1997-millennium-bug-8
CBS Sunday Morning
Interviewed by Mo Rocca about OK
March 16, 2014
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/time-for-a-little-word-history-ok/
C-SPAN: Go to
https://www.c-span.org/
and search for "Allan Metcalf"
to find me March 25, 2017 at the Virginia Festival of the Book in a panel discussion "Word Salad or Word Solid? Malapropisms and New Coinages" with Robert Rubin.
Also in that C-SPAN search for "Allan Metcalf," find me interviewed November 24, 1997 by Brian Lamb about my book (with David Barnhart) America in So Many Words.
On the birthday of OK, America's greatest word
WGBH - NPR radio in Boston
http://wgbhnews.org/post/how-boston-created-american-philosophy-2-letters-ok
Talkin' about the new governor of Illinois
WUIS - NPR in Springfield, Ill.
http://wuis.org/post/lookin-gov-rauners-missing-gs
How Words of the Year began
Time - November 17, 2014
http://time.com/3589626/word-of-the-year-history/
Appreciation of OK, the Greatest Word on Earth
Column in Hamodia, September 9, 2015
Review of OK, by Kathleen Ervin - March 18, 2011
