"whala" for voila

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Nov 29, 2007 10:31 PM, sagehen at westelcom.com <sagehen at westelcom.com> wrote:
>
> Reading instructions for use of some computer function in the monthly
> catalog of United Natural Foods International,
> came across this use: if you want to undo sthg, use the UNDO key (duh) or
> command+z, and  -- whala --  it
> disappears or whatever.  Never ran into this before.  Anyone else?

Well, Arnold sure has.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005052.html


--Ben Zimmer

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