"plenty enough" ?

[Marc Velasco]

The double redundancy seems to further demonstrate the author's subject: the
lax conformance with rules about 'tax avoidance' perhaps filtered down into
his lax conformance with rules of 'proper grammar/usage.'



On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu>
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> Looks like a blend of "plenty" and "more than enough."
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> >From the column, "Corporate  Focus" by Robert Weissman, editor
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> .."The group did not suggest any illegal activities  by the companies --
> there are plenty enough legal tax avoidance strategies."
> Odd to find this awkward redundancy in the work of an editor.
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