Sanford eggcorn: "world wind (tour)"

[Wilson Gray]

To paraphrase:

"Sound-change is a bitch."

We who still retain the [hw-] pronunciation - Hank Hill, Stewie
Griffin, your humble correspondent - would never make that particular
mistake.

-Wilson

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Benjamin
Zimmer<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> _The State_ has published leaked emails between Gov. Mark Sanford and
> "Maria," and amidst all the salaciousness is this fine eggcorn:
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> 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:
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> http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/browse-eggcorns/#comment-1020
> http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1927
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>
> --Ben Zimmer
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