The book wallah was an itinerant peddler - George Orwell
As I was writing the previous post, I checked the spelling of a word I have heard used for years, usually when someone has done something they are excited about.
The word? Wallah.
For example, “Wallah, I finally finished the post.”
To my utter amazement, wallah means something entirely different. According to Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, wallah means “a person who is associated with a particular work or who performs a specific duty or service – usu. used in combination....” The example used was the quote at the top of this post.
Who knew?
Have you ever found out a word you like to use actually means something else? Did you stop using it?
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