I had to give my french coworker a ride to his hotel today. His accent is extremely thick, he kept talking about the "EEE--WAWK - WAH". For 10 minutes he went on about this. Finally, I said, "Dude, I have no idea what you are talking about." He replied, "The wah, the wah in eeeh-wak." After he spelled it, I realized he meant the Iraq war.