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Indonesian TikToker with more than 2 million followers jailed after saying Islamic phrase before eating pork (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wallah, the sound, has a number of roots. I'd only heard it used as an anglicized version of voila, which is relatively recent in the English language and started as a joke.

Here's a link from someone who put in more work researching this than I can bother with.