Re: [NTLK] Syncing with Palm Desktop!

From: Colin West (colingwest_at_mac.com)
Date: Thu Aug 12 2004 - 13:16:20 PDT

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Close but not quite. The correct spelling is "voilà". The "voi" comes
from "voir"-to see and the "là" means "that"; hence "see that" or, as
it really means, "there is" or "there are".

Colin

On Aug 12, 2004, at 3:17 PM, Steele Campbell wrote:

> I'm still pretty sure it is a derrivative of the French verb "voir"
> (see) and the French word "la" (female of 'that').
>
> Hence the "Voila!", "see that!"

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