{"id":7448,"date":"2023-11-17T18:01:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T18:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/?p=7448"},"modified":"2025-05-15T17:05:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:05:53","slug":"is-it-whoa-or-woah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/writing\/is-it-whoa-or-woah","title":{"rendered":"Is it spelled \u201cwhoa\u201d or \u201cwoah\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main-content\" data-grid=\"col-12\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph-3\">Whoa, wait\u2026have you been writing the word \u201cwhoa\u201d wrong all this time? How do you spell \u201cwhoa\u201d, anyway? 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