Eggcorn Forum

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)