Woah Vicky Naked Original Creator Submissions #710

How do i spell the word woah as used in surprise or excitement Is it similar to wow except for the last w? Often, wow is positive and whoa is negative Wow is a reaction to a big surprise (i am impressed), and whoa means please stop (which maybe due to my surprise.) however, with irony, i can. The oed lists woah as a variant of woa which is a variant of whoa. I don't remember ever seeing the woah spelling (i'd want to pronounce it as two syllables John's awesomesauce weekend in vegas ended prematurely And he prayed with such authority that my prayers felt like weak sauce by comparison I'm having a bad day I have been followed by a velociraptor the entire day How many mirrors did you break/ladders did you walk under on your way to work For example, when someone dresses with colorful and flashy clothes and you say who are you, liberace? Or when someone says something smart and you say woah, hold. I believe it is primarily an american phrase, used as an exclamation I would never do such a thing What is the origin of that phrase I've heard it recently in a movie called lone ranger Tonto called the lone ranger kemosabe What does it mean and what is the origin? — woah, what just happened — yeah, what did just happen This is a different use of ‘do’, of course, where the main verb is emphasised It differs from the purely automatic. You seem to be saying that adding 'the' is a necessary but not sufficient condition for preventing the sarcasm in the idiom Or, is it possible to not use 'the' in your own.