On 8/8/2012 11:10 PM, hamilton wrote:
On 8/8/2012 9:57 PM, flipper wrote:
One imagines you meant "voilą," which English speakers, unable to find
them pesky 'foreign' characters on the keyboard, usually type as
"voila."
Kind of looses it umph, when you have to explain it.
Voila: vwah+lah -often used by magicians.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/voila?s=t
Once heard a newscaster reading her cards sh said,
"And vi o la it was done" when she meant to say,
"And vwah-lah it was done".
The other newscasters got quite a giggle out of it.
Mikek