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Chris -- 2018-04-11
From the instructions to a modem I just bought: ”...you can restore the system to the default configuration by using a thin needle to press this slot for three seconds or for three executive times.”
“Executive” for “consecutive” doesn’t appear to have been discussed yet on Eggcorn Forum. I probably wouldn’t call it an eggcorn because the two words don’t sound enough alike. I guess it’s just an amusing slip, especially since a number of the examples I’ve found seem to be from writers for whom English is not the first language.
Googling “two executive times” yielded no examples of this thing.
Googling “three executive times” yielded half a dozen unique hits, e.g.:
“Tell me, who did well and won the archery championship for three executive times?”
“I birdied the 12th hole three executive times.”
“WITH THIS VICTORY ANA IVANOVIC BECOMES THE SECOND TENNIS PLAYER TO WIN THE TITLE FOR THREE EXECUTIVE TIMES…”
Googling “four executive times” yielded no unambiguous examples of it.
But googling “five executive times” yielded two:
“Just like the ‘019’, the ‘Oilman’ won the race from Noyon for five executive times.”
“Judge Jopling, as he was familiarly known, served Dickens County five executive times as Tax Assessor-Collector.”
Googling “three executive days” produced a relative jackpot—almost two dozen unique hits, most of which are this slip.
So it may be just a slip, and an uncommon one at that, but it turns up regularly, and not just from English-as-a-second-language writers.
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