ink-pen

[Mark A. Mandel]

Gerald Cohen says:
   >>>>>

My thanks to Michael McKernan for his reply below, which I now share
with 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.
 <<<<<

That's assuming that every time someone says "ink pen", he's constructing
the phrase analytically. But if it has become lexicalized, it's just going
to roll off his tongue as automatically as "PIN number" or "ATM machine".

-- Mark A. Mandel
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