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		pavlov on Sept 2, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Subcases and Hierarchy Wallah! Task lists. I can understand leaving out the accent on voilà, but "wallah"? It's not even pronounced like that. If you Americans insist on writing French with such a horrible accent, I'm going to start raiting English vit my Finnish äksent. Rivendz vil pi sviit.

rubinelli on Sept 2, 2009 [–]

You, monsieur, are mistaken about the provenance of the word: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallah_%28arabic%29

extension on Sept 3, 2009 | [–]

Based on the context, it's more likely Joel intended to use say this: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/voil%C3%A0

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