At 8:36 PM +0000 2/12/02, Lynne Murphy wrote: > >But considering that the great number of pleonasms probably involve >hyponymy, I'd say we need a word for hyponym-free pleonasms (the marked >case) more than we need a term for the unmarked situation of hyponym-ful >pleonasms! > Ain't that [the hyponym-free pleonasm] the oxymoron? Larry