It's "Voilà!"
It is pronounced vwä-ˈlä with a V sound.
Not "Wallah" or "Whalla" or "Wa- La" or anything else that silly.
Quick french lesson: Voilà is not a sound effect. It is a word with a meaning. En Englais, it means "there it is!" or "see there!" because voir (or the conjugated form, vois) means "to see" and la literally means "there."
You might think I'm getting nit-picky but hopefully you'll thank me later.
PS While I'm pretending to be the Word Police, if you're a Punctuation Cop, let me know if I'm making errors. I know there are a lot of quotation marks in this post....
It is pronounced vwä-ˈlä with a V sound.
Not "Wallah" or "Whalla" or "Wa- La" or anything else that silly.
Quick french lesson: Voilà is not a sound effect. It is a word with a meaning. En Englais, it means "there it is!" or "see there!" because voir (or the conjugated form, vois) means "to see" and la literally means "there."
You might think I'm getting nit-picky but hopefully you'll thank me later.
PS While I'm pretending to be the Word Police, if you're a Punctuation Cop, let me know if I'm making errors. I know there are a lot of quotation marks in this post....
7 comments:
It's Fantastic! Not Vantastic!!!!
fafafa.... not vavava!
That's one of my biggest, bc it's said {incorrectly} a lot, so I hear VANtastic! all the freaking time. Sooo annoying!
You're adorable. Really. We must consume vino (or something comparable) again soon!
Oh, & in case anyone thinks I'm hitting on you...oh, just make something up.
Merci pour les corrections madame!
haha. i never really paid attention, but you're right, people DO say "Walla!" now that is going to grate my nerves.....
angie, ce n'est pas un problème. :)
claire, thanks. i agree. but i kind of hoped you were hitting on me... :)P
I know I'm super late on this, but the vodka is called "SMEER-NOF" not "SCHMEER-NOF."
Thank you.
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