@porsche ... otherwise known as flat adverbs. They were once more common than they are now. Nothing wrong with them.

I, for one, am grateful that we still benote capital letters! I hav studied other tungs that hav different alphabets and those without capital letters are harder to read. If I write steven ... I'm mean the word for voice ... She has the steven of an angel. But if I write Steven, then you kno that I mean the name Steven.

Even worse are those that don't benote vowels! They truly drive me nuts.

Yes. No. Maybe?

@jayles ... Wlatsome \Wlat"some\, a.- Loathsome; disgusting; hateful. [Obs.]
Murder is . . . wlatsom and abhominable to God. --Chaucer.

@black jayles ... They have hav near meanings but sunder roots. Loath comewas from lāþ ... (no w). Both wlatsom and lōth were in ME ... and they both stand today.

@Patrick ... Would yu write: "for example, the dog is blue" or "for example the dog is blue"? If yu benote the comma after example, then also benote it after the abbreviation. For me, there should be a comma there.

@Hairy Scot ... I don't think anyone disagrees that "I hav" is good and proper. What I'v found is that most folks will answer in the same way the frain was asked ... "Do you hav the book?" will likely be answered with "Yes, I hav it or yes, I do." OTOH, "You'v got the book? ... Yea, I'v got it." As I said before, benoting "gotten" helps to clear up whether one means "have" or "received".

@blazey ... What are yu smokin'? "Did you do your homework?" is not "ungrammatical" nor is it any less clear than "Have you done your homework?"

The compelling point for me is the date of the earliest record WRITTEN of the word. I think 1815 is well before any large Greek immigration. And I think we can believe that it was being said well before that. Most of our Greek rooted words are from ancient Greek via Latin (the Romans borrowed heavily from the Greeks), the Church (the New Testament was written in Greek), or thru science ... not so much from "modern" Greek.

English has many words of ur-native upspringing ... from tomahawk, squaw, moccasin, teepee to more common words like quonset (quonset huts), opossum, raccoon, hickory, squash ... and many more.

Think about how eathly OK, okay, okeh has spread to other tungs from English. It is such a useful word. I'v been to many parts of the word and a person may not kno English but most kno the word OK.

So I'm going with the Choctaw root, which to me is the simplest one, unless someone can come up with something more compelling for how it shows up as early as 1815.

In Java programming, it is "uncapitalize": uncapitalize("This Is A String");

A google search turned up 152,000 hits for uncapitalize and 74,400 for decapitalize.

1. @Porsche ... Yu're absolutely right. The brooking of myself here is wrong, wrong, wrong! ... And ... It's wrong!

2. @Alice ... Yu too are right! Remember folks, the great Bard was a playwright! How many would hold up the grammar benoted in the scripts of today's movies as byspels of good grammar?

"We arrived OK" notation in the hand-written diary of a traveller going from Boston to New Orleans in 1815.

The Choctaw Expression "Okeh"
and the Americanism "Okay"

Jim Fay, Ph.D.
7/14/07
Abstract: The etymology of "'OK" based on the Choctaw "okeh" that was cited in dictionaries well into the twentieth century, and how that etymology came to be replaced by one formulated by Allen Read.
http://www.illinoisprairie.info/chocokeh.htm