Erin: > There's a largish article on this in the new VERBATIM book, called > "Pleonasties" by Dr. Harold Ellner. > > Most of his examples are sentence-length, but he does have some > two-word examples: > > skin rash > liver cirrosis > face mask > mentally insane > crooked racketeer > new innovation > new recruit "Ink pen" is another one. I hear a lot. Anne G