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Originally Posted by SailDesign
OMFG, THANK YOU for spelling that little sucker correctly! I am so sick of seeing it spelled "Wallah" or something like that. I hate to correct folks all the time (although I do it occasionally just to keep in practice!)
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A viola is a flower or a musical instrument. The expression which means “behold!” is voila. It comes from a French expression literally meaning “look there!” In French it is spelled with a grave accent over the A, as voilà, but when it was adopted into English, it lost its accent. Such barbarous misspellings as “vwala” are even worse, caused by the reluctance of English speakers to believe that OI can represent the sound “wah,” as it usually does in French.
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At one point, I was fluent in French and as a future educator, incorrect spelling really bothers me.
02-26-2009, 10:43 PM
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