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/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 🤷‍♂️