<p>Woah is not even a word. Whoa is the correct spelling of the word that means, "Stop right now!"</p>
<p>Yeah is the slang word used in place of yes.</p>
<p>Ya is the German? Swedish? word for yes. In English, it's the worst kind of slang, as in, "give me a hand, will ya?"</p>
<p>Yea is pronounced yay and means yes. It can be used interchangeably with aye. As in, "The yeas have it / The ayes have it."</p>
<p>Yay is an exclamation of approval. "Yay! We won game."</p>
<p>What Jaf said. Except that the German/Swedish word is supposed to be spelled Ja with an umlaut over the a, I believe.</p>
<p>Chicken Fingers.</p>
<p>"Whoa" is more conventional whereas IMO "woah" originated when the first Matrix was released. It was intended to lampoon Neo's frequent gasps of surprise.</p>
<p>I always thought people were misspelling 'whoa' when they used 'woah', guess not...</p>
<p>The fact remains that woah is not a word, Matrix or no.</p>
<p>I think "whoa" is correct, but I use "woah" just to be a rebel. ;)</p>
<p>^ Me too highopes</p>
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<p>Says who? I think "woah" has become a word (c.f. "pwn").</p>
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<p>haha that's what I think too woah! :)</p>
<p>If it were a word, then "woah" would logically rhyme would "Noah"; unless you pronounce the word "whoa" like "woe-ah", then you should stick with the correct spelling.</p>
<p>Since when does logic describe the English language?</p>
<p>english is a hybrid between latin, french, and spanish. i think anyways but what do i know</p>
<p>^ And German...</p>
<p>tool or tools?</p>
<p>There's not really that much Spanish influence on English, except recently (and even that seems to be mostly foodstuffs). As for being a blend of German, well, English is a Germanic language, but saying that there's German in there is like saying that French has a lot of Spanish in its make-up.</p>
<p>^ German words used in English -angst, kindergarten, sauerkraut, aspirin, cobalt, concertmaster, diesel, fest, hamburger, hamster, loess, masochism, nickel, waltz, zeppelin, zinc, and there are a lottttt more.</p>
<p>I left out the ones that were overly obviously German, because that wouldn't help prove a point.</p>
<p>As I understand it, English is a Germanic language with mainly Romance vocabulary.</p>
<p>That in itself partially explains why logic should never be used to describe our language.</p>
<p>Fundamentally, it's whoa, as far as the proper spelling goes I think. </p>
<p>Woah sounds like an alternate that you'd type on the internet.</p>
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"Whoa" reminds me of "hooah!" like guys in the Army would say.
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<p>Does everybody not see this? </p>
<p>Now I can't use the proper spelling.</p>