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Chris -- 2018-04-11
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I was telling an acquaintance a story, and he heard me as having said that I’d “tenured my resignation.” I hope I said “tendered.” In any case, Google returns 119 hits for “tenured * resignation.” Obviously, other permutations are out there. This may have eggcornish potential, but I don’t quite believe any of my own rationalizations, so into “Slips” it goes. Examples:
He tenured his resignation, which the prime minister would not accept.
http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/inde … RTA0009644
Guy Verhofstadt has tenured his resignation as Prime Minister of Belgium.
http://headofstateupdate.blogspot.com/
One of my favorite politically incorrect memories came after the aforementioned principal tenured her letter of resignation and a committee of four female department heads was appointed to find a successor.
http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/chapin/chapin20.html
After googling this one, I went looking for “tendered track position.” No go. But I did find two hits for “tendered professor.” One of these was was interesting because a second writer obviously recognized the first writer’s “tendered professor” as eggcornish, and replied with another eggcornish phrase:
> > This is especially true with tendered Professor at major universities who
> > teach PhD candidates.
>
> Does a tendered Professor have alot of cache? :)
http://slug.archives.nks.net/List/slug. … /0033.html
Last edited by patschwieterman (2007-06-19 23:41:22)
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I’ve been trying to follow in Ken’s oversized footsteps for years. Since he just posted something he’d already posted, I decided to post something I’d already commented on….
Oops, sorry, Fishbait2—apologies, in fact, to all of you Fishbaits. And good to see you’re around, David.
Pat
Last edited by patschwieterman (2007-06-20 01:57:38)
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Fishbait’s original post can be found here: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=1051
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