The phrase "a woe" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a state of deep sorrow or distress, often in a literary or poetic context.
Example: "Her heart was heavy with a woe that seemed to consume her every thought."
Alternatives: "a sorrow" or "a grief".
It's not a woe is me story.
This is not a "woe is me" story.
It's a refreshing call for new approaches from a community stuck on what I've called a "woe is me, shame on you" tune for far too long Then read Paul Voosen's marvelous profile of Kareiva for Greenwire (excerpt below).
And people really hate it when professional property owners have the audacity to take a "woe is me" tone while many tenants have to scrimp to pay $500 per month in rent.
It's not a woe is me story, but I have to listen to my heart and my gut, and right now my gut says to get away for a while.
Using all available information in a WoE approach, these problems might partly be overcome.
This is not a woe-is-me-tale.
"At many firms, not just here, there's a woe-is-us attitude," he says.
"You can't have a woe-is-us kind of attitude, but I was certainly very worried," Collins said.
In response to this threat, each discipline can fight a woe-is-me race to the bottom.
She did not want to make a woe-is-me sophomore album, she said, or, worse, one about being rich and famous.
