pleonasms: ink pen

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:23 PM +0000 2/14/02, Lynne Murphy wrote:
>--On Thursday, February 14, 2002 1:56 pm +0000 Douglas Bigham
><TlhovwI at AOL.COM> wrote:
>>...  What concerns me is
>>everyone on-list calling a "stick pin" a "straight pin".  Of course it's
>>straight!
>
>It's a straight pin as opposed to a safety pin.

That's what I assumed too, i.e. the same distinction as in "straight
razor" vs. "safety razor".

L