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- How to spell woah - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
whoa exclam used as a command to a horse to make it stop or slow down • informal used as a greeting, to express surprise or interest, or to command attention: whoa, that's huge!
- Meaning of whoa - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Whoa can also be spelled woah though there are many arguments started by bored people about which way is correct "Whoa! Don't do that, you scared me " "Whoa, that roller coaster is fast " "Whoa, okay, that's enough " "That car is so cool, it's like, whoa "
- Wow vs Whoa, what is the difference between them in the US?
“Whoa! This cake is delicious!” sounds perfectly normal and natural to me It carries an undertone of “I would never have believed you were such a good baker” which the wow version does not, but it’s perfectly idiomatic in my world
- Common expressions of surprise in American and British English
I think there's a third interjection, pronounced the same as whoa, but maybe spelled woah or woh That's what's being said in the cartoon, and it combines the two meanings - an expression of surprise and a request to stop A blog about AmE and BrE further discusses the woah spelling: The OED lists woah as a variant of woa which is a variant of
- idioms - The conflicting origin of a “piece of cake” - English Language . . .
The ngram in the last website, NOFB, suggests that the idiom is also British (blue line) And Manry, an American copy-editor, in 1965 wrote “I told myself that if most of the days ahead were as pleasant as this, our trip would be a breeze, or, as the English say, a piece of cake ” which Ben Yagoda, the writer of the article, considers striking evidence that the idiom was commonly thought to
- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
@WS2 In speech, very nearly always In writing, much less so I think what may be going on is that one just assumes that “June 1” is pronounced “June First”, or “4 July” as “the Fourth of July”
- What do you call the process of combining two words to create a new one . . .
Two very well established examples I can think of are: Guesstimate (i e Guess + Estimate) Chillax (i e Chill + Relax) I guess I am meaning the process where two words are artificially combined in
- Idioms, how do they work? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
My friend: Woah, babies are really poop factories Me: No shit Now, at that point, the chat spiraled out to a discussion on how wrong I was on using no shit on poop factory Words such as "complete opposite" and "idioms, idiot" were uttered I pointed my friend at the definition at thefreedictionary com definition: no shit (rude)
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