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3catwoman3

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9. I have seen a few instances of an exclamatory word, if you can call it...

Reply to japple (Original post)

Wed Apr 28, 2021, 06:26 PM

Apr 2021

...a word, at the end of sentences, that the writers have spelled, “Wallah!”

It took me the longest damn time to figure out that people meant “Voila!”

(Apologies - I don’t know how to get the diacritical mark over the “a”.)

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Here's a new one for all you grammar nazis. One of my family members posted [View all] japple Apr 2021 OP

Auto-correct funny fail! Croney Apr 2021 #1

I guess she learned to spell via "hooked on phonics," eh? hlthe2b Apr 2021 #2

Not really a grammar issue . . . Ms. Toad Apr 2021 #3

Yeah. It's a "never reads anything" issue, I'd imagine. hlthe2b Apr 2021 #4

At least not in the last 13 months . . . Ms. Toad Apr 2021 #5

"corn teened" - verb - impose isolation while eating only corn chips; put in corn teened FSogol Apr 2021 #6

Quarantined? underpants Apr 2021 #7

Ding, ding, ding!!!! Congratulations. japple Apr 2021 #10

The pleasures of the internet. I have had to turn off my eyes and listen to the sound not the sight ShazamIam Apr 2021 #8

I have seen a few instances of an exclamatory word, if you can call it... 3catwoman3 Apr 2021 #9

"Corn teened" is just wrong. It should be "Cornly teened". JustABozoOnThisBus Apr 2021 #11