If you ever want to travel around the world, even if you don't know another language,

no matter where you go, there's already one word that you know.

It's the most ubiquitous word in the world and can be found in almost every language and has multiple meetings.

And the good news is because you

already know the word it requires no extra effort. Learn more about the history of the

word okay, the most common word in the world on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. In well over 800 episodes of this podcast, this is the first time I've dedicated an entire

episode to a single word.

If indeed you can even call it a word, which is someone in doubt.

The reason why such a simple word would be the subject of its own episode is because of how common the word is around the world

And I can say from personal experience having traveled to well over a hundred countries you can get by using the word

Okay pretty much everywhere.

A word that is adopted into another language is known as a loan word and okay has

become as close to a global loan word as is possible.

One of the unique things about okay is how many multiple meanings it has depending on how

it's used.

Okay can be used as a noun, a verb, an adjective, an adverb, and an interjection.

For example, as a noun it could be used in the following way.

We got the okay to visit the restaurant.

As a verb you could say the following, we need to okay the reservation at the restaurant.

As an adjective you would say, we went to an okay restaurant.

As an adverb you would say the restaurant is okay.

Finally you can use it as an interjection such as okay let's go to the restaurant.

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