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[violachic]

When, exactly, did the word "whoa" get turned around into "woah"?


Woah is not a word.


Whoa is.

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[carneggy.livejournal.com]

Blame Keanu.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Dunno

1870

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Seriously, though, from the OED (have an account thru school):



Also woah. [Variant of WHOA.]

= WO int. 2. Hence woa v., to stop (trans. and intr.) with the call of ‘woa’.
1840 DICKENS Old C. Shop xxxviii, Woa-a-a then, will you? 1856 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Nov. 530/1 With a loud ‘woah!’ the man stopped the beast [sc. ass]. 1870 S. LANIER Nine from eight 31, I woa'd my mules mighty easy. 1871 M. LEGRAND Cambr. Freshm. 252 Woa, Princey, woa! But Prince wouldn't ‘woa.’ 1892 CHEVALIER Wot Cher! iv, ‘Woa! steady! Neddy Woa!’

[2049live.livejournal.com]

Woah- who would mispell something like that? ;-)

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

the same time as "teh" did. which we had as part of a panel title at wiscon this year, and everyone kept wanting to correct, at least those over 45 and not hardjacked into the internet.

[violachic.livejournal.com]

You're just lucky I'm a pacifist ;-)

[violachic.livejournal.com]

I admit I still wince at "teh" :-)

[themiddlestates.livejournal.com]

teh is a little out of date now, i think.

i always get annoyed when people use "micro$oft" or "M$"...

[2049live.livejournal.com]

indeed. nyah.

[roguevla.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU! I could hug you for that...

[sabotabby]

Same for "yea" when the person my mom means "yay."

[bammba-m.livejournal.com]

i love teh!! teh is Teh Awesome!!!


of course, i mostly only use it when i'm saying Teh Awesome. :) it's different when i say it, you have to admit. because you can be confident that i have a fully functional working knowledge of teh grammar.

[tinceiri.livejournal.com]

teh

[laurahcory1.livejournal.com]

That was my thought as well.

[magp.livejournal.com]

3rded