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And I think it never looses it's foreignness, only we no longer notice it. What is the difference? And I think it never looses it's foreigness, only we got used to it. That any better gooofy? No, it's pretty much the same.
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An anglicized word I often see in e-mail group posts is "wala" meaning an expression of surprise when something good happens with little effort on one's part. From the French "voilą." I was attributing it to ignorance, but I guess it's just anglicization.
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or it could be anglicization from ignorance.
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Hmm--smacks of Araby or India to me. Though I suppose they could have borrowed it from French...?
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Or either you're thinking of wallah.
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I've seen the wallah spelling, as well as wala, walah, and walla, when voilą was clearly the intended meaning.
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I've seen the wallah spelling, as well as wala, walah, and walla, when voilą was clearly the intended meaning.
All these spellings indicate a change in pronunciation from /'vwala/ to /'wɑlɑ/.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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