pleonasms

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:33 PM -0500 2/13/02, Bethany K. Dumas wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, ANNE V. GILBERT wrote:
>
>>"Ink pen" is another one. I hear a lot.
>
>I'm not sure "ink pen" qualifies. My credit union now requires
>[electronic] signatures with an "inkless pen."
>
>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".

larry