'word' words

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:06 PM -0400 4/28/08, Laurence Horn wrote:
>  The point about
>"collie dog" is that there's no possible confusion of a similar sort
>(a collie non-dog).
>
An even more impressive Class 2 redundancy is "collie dog puppy"
(6470 hits, some for "Border collie dog puppy").  So-called to
distinguish them from all those collie cat puppies and collie pig
puppies out there...

LH

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