Eggcorn Forum

I’ve seen the entry for “whoa is me,” but I absolutely love the use of “whoa” for “woe” in the phrase [attributive noun + woes/whoas]—”moving woes/whoas” was the first example. I love the idea of someone standing there, in amazement, exclaiming the interjection “Whoa!” instead of weakly press their wrist to their forehead and lamenting “Woe!”

“Moving whoas” is so much more empowering!

I’ve found other examples of the construction:
Whoas

http://missionbased.blogspot.com/2007/0 … whoas.html

Interim whoas
I get a call every 18 months or so looking for someone who could fill in as an interim exec. Once or twice I’ve been able to give the caller a suggestion, and sometimes, (I know in total desperation) they ask me to do the job. I always say, “No, no NO….thank you”….
I’ve always thought that being an interim exec would be a horrible job,

http://osdir.com/ml/suse.ia64/2006-05/msg00001.html

Subject: Re: IA-64 Installation Whoas
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 07:35:13AM -0400, LDB wrote:

| I have tried to install SLES 9 on an intel IA-64 server. When yast starts

| up the

| whole installation freezes. This happens no matter what options I pass to

| the

| kernel.

http://www.thomastechsolutions.com/imag … lly%20joss

(this one might be a pun)

A Case of Production Whoas
(a trade-journal’s story of a company that publishes a travel index, whose software would no longer be supported, and so it needed to find a way to publish the index with new software.

http://www.brucers.com/2007/06/school_whoas.html

School whoas…
I got an F on my fourth paper for school. No one is to blame but myself…
I was really distracted the fourth week of school—it’s not an excuse, only a
reason. It doesn’t make it any better.
My goal was a 4.0 GPA. If I expect to get there, I need to focus much harder.
=(
Posted by Bruce on June 1, 2007 11:02 AM

http://cityrag.blogs.com/main/2004/10/email_whoas.html

email whoas_
in the last couple weeks we’ve become aware that HOTMAIL sucks, and we HAVE NOT been getting a bunch of the email people have sent us! we try to reply to every email, so if you’ve sent us something and haven’t gotten a responce, please try again (and we’re working on a new email service and address.) over and out. thanks.