> 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