ink-pen

[Wilson Gray]

On Nov 13, 2004, at 4:11 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:

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> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at UMR.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: ink-pen
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> My thanks to Michael McKernan for his reply below, which I now share
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> ads-l. His point is well made, and yet if someone says he's writing
> with an ink-pen, "ink" here is not really needed for clarification.
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> Gerald Cohen

"Ink" would be needed for clarification, if someone had asked the
writer whether he was using an ink-pen or a ballpoint-pen.

-Wilson Gray

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>> From:         Michael McKernan
>> Sent:         Saturday, November 13, 2004 2:58 PM
>> To:   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
>> Subject:      Re: Redundancy--(in defense of "South Yugoslavia")
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>> Gerald Cohen wrote:
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>>> Another of his favorite redundancies was "an ink pen."
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>> Well, in a rural area, someone might occasionally feel a need to
>> distinguish this item from a 'hog pen' or a 'sheep pen', etc., and
>> urbanites might even know of that very human form of pen, the still
>> common 'play pen'.
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>> Michael McKernan, Ph.D.
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