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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I’m an employment lawyer. I just saw this well-nigh unbelievable eggcorn in someone’s letter of resignation:
“So I made the decision, after months of thinking about it- to tenure my resignation.”
Obviously not one of the “ten-year” professors who have previously cropped up in this Forum!
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I found about 150 raw hits for “tenure my/her/his resignation”—though some of those definitely were false positives.
I think this is a malapropism rather than an eggcorn, since the writers seem a little unclear on what “tenure” means. But it’s one of those interesting situations where the resulting phrase is almost self-contradictory.
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