What is this?
"Whoulda thunk there was more than 1 way to take a rest from training and allow your body sufficient time to recover?"

What is "whoulda thunk"? Is it "Would have thought" but wrote it wrong on purpose? Think thunk thunk? Whoulda woulda would have?

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What is this?
"Whoulda thunk there was more than 1 way to take a rest from training and allow your body sufficient time to recover?"

What is "whoulda thunk"? Is it "Would have thought" but wrote it wrong on purpose? Think thunk thunk? Whoulda > woulda > would have?

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Thunk is used as a pseudo-archaic past participle of think (by analogy with drink/drunk.)

http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/whod-a-thunk-it

The formal definition is here,

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/who-would-ve-thunk-it

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Hey Tiger. You almost got it right. You have a really tricky sentence there.

"Whoulda" is a contraction of "who would have." "Thunk," in this context, is really informal way to say "thought." So the sentence could also read "Who would have thought..."

It's a phrase I might use in a Facebook post or a text to a friend. I wouldn't use it, however, in a business memo or a professional document.

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You are correct.
Trying to sound uneducated and with a "rural" accent, probably.
Could be sarcasm.

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It's basically short / slang for "who would have thought"

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