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0 pointserr4nt11y ago0 comments

   "when I bookmark the search page or email the link the search results reset - we need to be able to link to a results page" and wa-la.

Wallah = 'By Allah's Name' in arabic

Voilà = Literally 'See' + 'There' in French

Only Americans seem to confuse these two words.

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redblacktree11y ago· 2 in thread

Downvote for the insult. I would have corrected him as well, but this was unnecessary:

> Only Americans seem to confuse these two words.

err4ntOP11y ago

It's just an observation that this switcheroo of Wallah/Voilà seems regional to that area of the world - would you say that's not true? No insult intended.

Other seemingly American conventions include saying: 'would of', 'could of', 'for all intensive purposes', 'I could care less', and plenty more. I travel to the US a couple times every month and notice things like this!

redblacktree11y ago

The implied insult is that this region is the only region where people are dumb enough to misspell these words.

All of your examples are examples of words and phrases that people have primarily heard (rather than read), and thus they spell them incorrectly. People who have read these phrases repeatedly are less like to make these mistakes of spelling.

nikcub11y ago

I'm not American, but kudos on the bigotry.

Incase you didn't notice, I wasn't spelling any word - just phonetic punctuation which is common in online chat.

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