> If "Wa-La" crept in through the transom sometime in the last decade or
> so I suppose Joe and I might have missed it. "Viola" is the French from
> which such a hypothetical Americanism would have sprung.

"Voila" - Viola is (alleged to be [1]) a musical instrument and somewhat
different 8)

Alan
[1] http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/jokes/viola.html
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