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Tuesday, May 02, 2006

"Walla"? There's NO SUCH FREAKIN' word as "Walla"!!!

Just so you know, I am NOT typically stupidity-intolerant. I don't expect everyone to be a spelling wiz like me. But... hear me loud and clear on this one... THERE IS NO SUCH WORD AS "WALLA"!!!

Do people NOT read any more? And, if they do read, do they NOT retain any shred of what they read?

The word is "voilà". As I mentioned earlier, I don't expect everyone to necessarily spell it perfectly. I could accept "vola", "viola" (even though that would be a stringed musical instrument), "vila" (as in Bob?), or just about anything that suggested the writer has even the teeniest clue of the actual spelling of the word.

But "walla"? No. Not even close. Not even in the ballpark, Bubba. If that's the best you can do, you are NOT allowed to use the word. And if you do, the Word Police will show up at your door, they'll say "Voilà!", and then they'll hit you with the Bad Spelling Stick.

So don't come cryin' to me. You've been warned.
Posted by at 11:24 PM

9 hopefully thoughtful response(s):

  1. wal·la ( P ) Pronunciation Key (wälä, wl)
    n.
    Variant of wallah.

    One employed in a particular occupation or activity: a kitchen wallah; rickshaw wallahs.
    An important person in a particular field or organization: “the Ritz, a favorite haunt of Republican wallahs” (John Robinson).


    Okay, okay, I'm kidding here....I know what you are saying but I just had to post this. Sometimes this stuff drives me crazy too. I am by far not the most intelligent person in the world so I shouldn't say too much. I have a friend who keeps saying "I have a ideal" instead of idea....drives me up a wall but I don't say anything because I know she'll never change! LOL
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  2. Perhaps not. Irregardless, (my own favorite peeveword) we must tolerate the unfortunate word butchers God has placed in our lives, love them, forgive them, and invent new words to torture them. (Really, try it. They'll act like they knew it was a word all along.
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  3. Hi. Came to you from Dubious Wonder's Site. AMEN TO THAT! It really disturbs me when people make spelling mistakes, especially when I do it!

    ;)
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  4. Hey Jim,
    Do you mind telling me how to make all the various little accent marks appear OVER the letter you mean it to appear over? I am not a programmer so I don't know the code.
    Thank you so much,
    Jackie Sue
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  5. You don't just put the accent marks over a given letter. In computer terms, having that accent mark makes it a completely different letter. For example, the ñ in señor is a different letter than a plain old n.

    Also, it depends on what kind of environment you're working in... For example, in a Windows-friendly program such as MS-Word, most email clients, and so on, open up the Character Map utility: Start-> All Programs-> Accessories-> System Tools-> Character Map ... Find the accented letter you want, then Select and Copy... then Paste it into your MS-Word doc, your email, etc.

    If you were using HTML to code a web site, you could use a page such as http://www.starr.net/is/type/htmlcodes.html
    as a reference.

    Hope that helps!
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  6. OMG... this is so funny. My ex boyfriend used to say Walla and it drove me nuts. He acted like every little thing was a huge triumph. UGH. WALLA... he was out of my life in a poof! LOL

    Thank you for letting me visit your website... pretty cool to have your own .com. ;)

    Laurel
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  8. Hey, I live in Walla Walla, WA, and there is such a word, and it's even OK to use it back to back.
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  9. No, you live in Voilà Voilà, WA.

    Just kidding!!!
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