I know this isn’t a grammar/spelling peeve thread, but I have to say this because I saw it a couple of times yesterday. The next time I see, instead of “voila”, “viola” or worse yet, “WA-LA”, I will scream.
Voila is French for “look there” or “look at that.” Viola is a string instrument.
The number of bastardized colloquialisms in contemporary conversation is baffling. I spent a lot of time in graduate school writing papers about it, and the numbers are growing exponentially every generation.