Word Association Game

[LadyTerra]

Mandelin

HOW INFURIATING IS IT WHEN SOMEONE SAYS "viola" FOR "voilà"?

THIS MUST END. I mean, there's no similarity between the two words except for their arbitrary signifiers! It just makes no sense!

This is exactly why I say it like that.   Viola! 

[DawsonJ]

Mandarin

[Delling]

中文

(if you can't see that: Zhongwen--the Chinese characters for Chinese (and in this case, it really is "Chinese": it isn't dialect specific.))

Mandelin

HOW INFURIATING IS IT WHEN SOMEONE SAYS "viola" FOR "voilà"?

THIS MUST END. I mean, there's no similarity between the two words except for their arbitrary signifiers! It just makes no sense!

This is exactly why I say it like that.   Viola!  

I had assumed that some people mis-re-learned it by typing it in and having spellcheck tell them "Voila doesn't exist: how about viola? That exists." So much fail.

[DawsonJ]

Simplified

[LadyTerra]

Easy

HOW INFURIATING IS IT WHEN SOMEONE SAYS "viola" FOR "voilà"?

THIS MUST END. I mean, there's no similarity between the two words except for their arbitrary signifiers! It just makes no sense!

This is exactly why I say it like that.   Viola! 

I had assumed that some people mis-re-learned it by typing it in and having spellcheck tell them "Voila doesn't exist: how about viola? That exists." So much fail.
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I'm not sure if other people genuinely mis-re-learned it, but I do it to bother my half English-major sweetie.  His peeves include mispronunciation, particularly with Old English (I pronounce thorns as 'y').

[snabbott]

light

[Halgroda]

Dark

[DawsonJ]

Chocolate

[KatieHal]

Want!

[Delling]

lolspeak

[snabbott]

cheezburger

[Halgroda]

Hamburger

[DawsonJ]

Germany

[Delling]

Hamburg

[DawsonJ]

Frankfurt

[LadyTerra]

Hot Dog

[Delling]

yum!

[DawsonJ]

Pizza!

[snabbott]

Hungry!

[DawsonJ]

Food!  (Generic enough for ya? )