Voilà!

Language Log 2023-08-12

Summary:

I've always been fond of this pretty, little word, but I seldom use it in my own speech (maybe once every five or ten years), because it seems too triumphant.  This morning, however, after a long, numerical list of steps that some colleagues and I need to take, followed by a conclusion we wished to […]

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Tags:

borrowing

Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

08/12/2023, 15:10

Date published:

08/12/2023, 10:38