"Word" words?

[Joel S. Berson]

They can do what they like -- I will not fall prostrate!

Joel

At 4/28/2008 06:00 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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>On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> > Surely "major league soccer" is sufficient.  Isn't it an abbreviation
> >  redundancy, in Arnold's classification, like "ATM machine"?  Unless
> >  one falls prostrate and allows MLS to call their league "Major League
> >  Soccer"!
>
>Don't they?
>
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>Their two regional subgroups are called "conferences".
>
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>Mark Mandel
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