pleonasms

Bethany K. Dumas dumasb at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU
Wed Feb 13 20:05:46 UTC 2002


On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Laurence Horn wrote:

>>I had never heard "ink pen" until I moved to Knoxville in 1974 - the first
>>place I heard it was in the Computer Center.
>>
>
>Aha.  Given what I (think I) know about the variety of English spoken
>in Knoxville, that would be an area where you'd want to distinguish
>between "ink pen" and "straight pin".

Yup.

Bethany



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