low_delta: (faerie)
Okay, I've seen the word spelled wrong three times in the last couple of days. I'm not going to name any names, because it's a very common problem, but it's time to clear this up.

When a magician pulls of a trick, he exclaims, voila!

It sounds like wah-lah, but it's French, so it's spelled weirdly.

Date: 2007-01-03 06:00 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] marswalker.livejournal.com
Voila: stringed instrument for dyslexics... ;-)

Date: 2007-01-03 06:54 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] penpusher.livejournal.com
Amateur US Magicians say, wah-lah.

Date: 2007-01-03 03:46 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] shoo.livejournal.com
bite me...I say WULA...it's a shoo thing

Date: 2007-01-03 08:46 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] low-delta.livejournal.com
I apologize. I can't tell the difference between people who don't know and people who spell wrong on purpose, so at the risk of offending some people, I should not have bothered to correct the people who really did want to know. I won't do it again.

I take it back. I will do it again.

Date: 2007-01-04 03:04 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] shoo.livejournal.com
I no you will...it must drive you krazee to sea missspelled werds...

Date: 2007-01-03 04:00 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] vocalista001.livejournal.com
Actually the French say vwah-lah!

I am in the middle of the instruments of the orchestra lessons with my 6th graders. Cracks me up to see how many kids know the paino is a precushion instermint.

Date: 2007-01-03 08:47 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] low-delta.livejournal.com
Hmm. I thought they said "vwha-la!"

Date: 2007-01-03 09:12 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] cynnerth.livejournal.com
They do! Whether it's vwha-la or vwah-la, it's still different than what you just said up there:
It sounds like wah-lah, but it's French, so it's spelled weirdly.

Date: 2007-01-04 12:03 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] vocalista001.livejournal.com
And thus started many a Monty Python skit....

Date: 2007-01-03 07:14 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] banana.livejournal.com
Don't start a debate with the language-wallahs. There'll be no end to that!

I agree with [livejournal.com profile] vocalista001. If it sounds like wah-lah then you're saying it wrong. If you say it right then the spelling's not strange.

Date: 2007-01-03 08:49 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] low-delta.livejournal.com
If you say it right then the spelling's not strange.

... if you know French.

Date: 2007-01-04 12:44 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] mummm.livejournal.com
Mercy Buckets!

(I'M JOKING!)

Date: 2007-01-04 12:47 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] banana.livejournal.com
Mais naturellement, mon ami!

Date: 2007-01-04 01:37 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ravenfeather.livejournal.com
ehh.. I would think he would PULL IT OFF.. ? not pull it of?

Date: 2007-01-04 02:22 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] low-delta.livejournal.com
Hahahaha! Good one!

You win!

Date: 2007-01-04 03:49 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] sirreal13.livejournal.com
That's right, whereas a hooker pulls ON a Trick...

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