At work, as the copywriter, I am usually the go-to person for spelling and grammar questions.
So today, a man calls across the cubicles to me, "Hey Jean - how do you spell 'voila'?" He pronounces it wah-lah, without any hint of the V.
I answer V - O - I - L - A.
"Really?" he asks.
"Yes," I say.
"With a V?" he asks.
"Yes," I say.
Not 60 seconds go by and I hear him talking quietly - to whom I'm not
sure - and he says "Oh, I'm trying to figure out how to spell voila."
Clearly my credibility isn't what it should be.
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Jean, quit trying to pull one over on the guy - everyone knows it's spelled "wallah". (Or, if you're into that fancy French junk, "vwallah"...)
ReplyDeleteMaybe he should stick with something easier like "Ta-daa!!"
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