2006-07-17 20:52:05 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
also, what is the origin?
2006-07-17 20:52:28 · update #1
Whoa
2006-07-17 20:55:02 · answer #1 · answered by female_lizzzzzard 3 · 20⤊ 2⤋
Whoa Or Woah
2016-10-06 05:55:46 · answer #2 · answered by barksdale 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How Do You Spell Whoa
2016-12-18 15:37:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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whoa whoa |wō| exclam. used as a command to a horse to make it stop or slow down. • informal used as a greeting, to express surprise or interest, or to command attention: whoa, that's huge!
2016-03-27 05:16:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doesn't really matter in my mind. sometimes i use "woah" sometimes I use "whoa" But i usually use "woah"
2015-09-21 16:07:29 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whoa is the traditional thing to say to your horse when you want it to slow/settle down. Watch some westerns, they almost always say "whoa" when stopping.
Some people read it and pronounce it as "woe-ah", which is wrong. It sounds the same as 'woe'.
2006-07-17 21:01:51 · answer #6 · answered by lazwatson 3 · 10⤊ 2⤋
It could be that whoa is more of a californian style accent of the word, as the "wh_" part californians tend to pronounce the 'h' a little harder.
The origin is probably to do with horse riding I suspect, being a term used to say to horse to slow it down.
2006-07-17 21:02:38 · answer #7 · answered by cehelp 5 · 4⤊ 6⤋
whoa
2006-07-17 21:11:44 · answer #8 · answered by band_craze4f 3 · 11⤊ 4⤋
being a colloquialism, it doesn't have a "definitive" spelling. either would be understood and can be considered correct, though i'd personally use "whoa"
as for its origin, it probably evolved from just a shout of like "wha" or something, i dunno
2006-07-17 20:57:01 · answer #9 · answered by visionary 4 · 5⤊ 11⤋
Whoa its american
2006-07-17 20:57:24 · answer #10 · answered by severity 2 · 6⤊ 13⤋