Pleonasms & trade names

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 2/13/2002 1:50:25 PM, laurence.horn at YALE.EDU writes:

<< >>  There's a largish article on this in the new VERBATIM book, called
>>  "Pleonasties" by Dr. Harold Ellner.
>>
>>  Most of his examples are sentence-length, but he does have some
>>  two-word examples:
>>
>>  skin rash
>>  liver cirrosis
>>  face mask
>>  mentally insane
>>  crooked racketeer
>>  new innovation
>>  new recruit >>

This happens also a lot with trade names, e.g., "Ford Mustang" and "3M
Post-It notes"