Opposite of "oxymoron"

[Lynne Murphy]

--On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 12:42 pm -0500 Patti Kurtz
<pkurtz at HEIDELBERG.EDU> wrote:

> Thanks-- I'll pass it along!
>
> By the way, what other examples of this sort of word exist?


They're not really words, they're phrases--and as such we could make up
examples until the cows come home, but lots are collected by various people
on the web, such as at:

http://www.wordexplorations.com/pleonasm.html


Dr M Lynne Murphy
Lecturer in Linguistics
Acting Director, MA in Applied Linguistics
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
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