Sanford eggcorn: "world wind (tour)"

[Joel S. Berson]

I gather an eggcorn does not require a similarly-sounding expression
with a real, or perhaps ideally a similar, meaning -- but here there
is "world wide".  Or is that so obvious is doesn't need
mentioning?  (I don't think it has been.)

Joel

At 6/24/2009 11:17 PM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>_The State_ has published leaked emails between Gov. Mark Sanford and
>"Maria," and amidst all the salaciousness is this fine eggcorn:
>
>http://www.thestate.com/sanford/story/839350.html
>"Back to Columbia for Tuesday and then on Wednesday, as I think I had
>told you, taking the family to China, Tibet, Nepal, India, Thailand
>and then back through Hong Kong on world wind tour."
>
>"World wind" for "whirwind" is not yet in the ECDB, but it's been
>noted at least twice by commenters:
>
>http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/browse-eggcorns/#comment-1020
>http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1927
>
>
>--Ben Zimmer
>
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