Often, wow is positive and whoa is negative. Wow is a reaction to a big surprise (i am impressed), and whoa means please stop (which maybe due to my surprise. ) however, with irony, i can … The oed lists woah as a variant of woa which is a variant of whoa i don't remember ever seeing the woah spelling (i'd want to pronounce it as two syllables: Wo-ah, like noah) before moving … Some dictionaries define whoa as stop!
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While some define it as an expression of surprise/astonishment. Is there such a word as whoa, where did it originate from and what is …
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