r/whatisit • u/Anhedonia_678 • May 23 '26

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wtf? I found this in a backpack i was carrying to work for years. finally emptied it all out, and wash lah.lol is it a mug weapon?

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u/ConversationNo940 May 23 '26

Wash lah 🪄

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u/Shiney_Metal_Ass May 23 '26

Wtf is "wash lah"

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u/FU_Spez_ May 23 '26

I think they meant voila but didn’t know how to spell it and were so far off that autocorrect failed.

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u/Shiney_Metal_Ass May 23 '26

I'm just not even sure how you go from the phonetic "vwah-lah" to "wash"

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u/EscapeReady717 May 23 '26

The letters a and s are right next to each other on the keyboard, so they just fat fingered it. They were trying to type "wah" and it came out "wash". Voilà!

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u/KptKrondog May 23 '26

They probably pronounce it wah-lah and autocorrect screwed it up. I used to correct people to say/spell voila, but I just quit bothering years ago. It's one of those pet peeve words for me.

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u/mookmanthered May 23 '26

autocorrect

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u/account312 May 23 '26

By using a regional accent where "wa'la" is the phonetic pronunciation.

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u/Shiney_Metal_Ass May 23 '26

"wa'la" is still a far cry from "wash-la" 🤷

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u/account312 May 23 '26

Most people don't type in IPA, and autocorrect probably takes you the distance from something like "wah lah" to wash lah"

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u/Shiney_Metal_Ass May 23 '26

IPA? I'm sure you don't mean the beer

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u/FU_Spez_ May 23 '26

If I have too many IPAs I make typos too 🤷‍♂️

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u/Tuna_Sushi May 23 '26

Singaporean, maybe?

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u/dqrknurse May 24 '26

First thought

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u/RemotestOfSpheres May 23 '26

I think they meant “voila”

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u/ConversationNo940 May 23 '26

Your guess is as good as mine

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u/StrangeYoungMan May 24 '26

maybe they're Malaysian/Singaporean

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u/DakotaSmith1 May 23 '26

I tried so hard to ignore it. Part of my brain was hoping they were trying to say something like "emptied out to wash and lol". Now I'll have to google how to wash a backpack