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02-23-2009, 11:17 PM
Independent Sources' (WEBSITE) list of Unnecessary redundancies repeated more than once.
I, myself, have been working on a written list of unnecessary redundancies.
How many of these do you hear or (gasp) use yourself?
(Yes, "written list" and "unnecessary redundancies" would both qualify):
hollow tube
armed gunman
freezing cold
free gift
near miss
financial accounting
natural instinct
absolutely perfect
past history
new beginning
grown man
silly clown
visual images
SAM missle
ATM machine
Oxymorons:
awfully good
genuine reproduction
pretty ugly
almost always
touch-tone dialing
Bonus:
We've all heard that you park on a driveway but drive on a parkway, but have you thought that when you send something by boat it is cargo but when you send it by car it's a shipment?
Update: Just found a funny site called Fun w/Words that had these good ones:
* (actual) experience
* (advance) planning
* (advance) reservations
* (advance) warning
* all meet (together)
* (armed) gunman
* at (12) midnight
* at (12) noon
* autobiography (of my life)
* (awkward) predicament
* (baby) boy was born
* (basic) fundamentals
* cease (and desist)
* cheap (price)
* (close) proximity
* cold (temperature)
* commute (back and forth)
* consensus (of opinion)
* (difficult) dilemma
* each (and every)
* (empty) space
* (end) result
* estimated (roughly) at
* filled (to capacity)
* (free) gift
* (frozen) ice
* (general) public
* green (in color)
* join (together)
* (natural) instinct
* never (at any time)
* (null and) void
* (pair of) twins
* (past) experience
* (poisonous) venom
* (pre-)recorded
* reason is (because)
* (regular) routine
* (small) speck
* (suddenly) exploded
* surrounded (on all sides)
* (unexpected) surprise had
I have to admit that I probably use some of these such as "unexpected surprise" (whoops) and "end result" (now I'm embarassed).
We can blame lawyers for "cease and desist" but by billing by the hour they are all about being wordy (IMHO).
Similar Independent Sources posts:
Reader Comment:
Robb Allen Says:
I've seen various permutations of "lethal fatality" in news stories.
GOOGLE search: FIRST PAGE has Results 1 - 10 of about 12,500,000 for redundancy
I, myself, have been working on a written list of unnecessary redundancies.
How many of these do you hear or (gasp) use yourself?
(Yes, "written list" and "unnecessary redundancies" would both qualify):
hollow tube
armed gunman
freezing cold
free gift
near miss
financial accounting
natural instinct
absolutely perfect
past history
new beginning
grown man
silly clown
visual images
SAM missle
ATM machine
Oxymorons:
awfully good
genuine reproduction
pretty ugly
almost always
touch-tone dialing
Bonus:
We've all heard that you park on a driveway but drive on a parkway, but have you thought that when you send something by boat it is cargo but when you send it by car it's a shipment?
Update: Just found a funny site called Fun w/Words that had these good ones:
* (actual) experience
* (advance) planning
* (advance) reservations
* (advance) warning
* all meet (together)
* (armed) gunman
* at (12) midnight
* at (12) noon
* autobiography (of my life)
* (awkward) predicament
* (baby) boy was born
* (basic) fundamentals
* cease (and desist)
* cheap (price)
* (close) proximity
* cold (temperature)
* commute (back and forth)
* consensus (of opinion)
* (difficult) dilemma
* each (and every)
* (empty) space
* (end) result
* estimated (roughly) at
* filled (to capacity)
* (free) gift
* (frozen) ice
* (general) public
* green (in color)
* join (together)
* (natural) instinct
* never (at any time)
* (null and) void
* (pair of) twins
* (past) experience
* (poisonous) venom
* (pre-)recorded
* reason is (because)
* (regular) routine
* (small) speck
* (suddenly) exploded
* surrounded (on all sides)
* (unexpected) surprise had
I have to admit that I probably use some of these such as "unexpected surprise" (whoops) and "end result" (now I'm embarassed).
We can blame lawyers for "cease and desist" but by billing by the hour they are all about being wordy (IMHO).
Similar Independent Sources posts:
Reader Comment:
Robb Allen Says:
I've seen various permutations of "lethal fatality" in news stories.
GOOGLE search: FIRST PAGE has Results 1 - 10 of about 12,500,000 for redundancy