"plenty enough" ?

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:07 AM -0400 7/16/08, Wilson Gray wrote:
>My word, y'all! That isn't strange to me, at all! My mother uses it.
>It even occurs in the '70's Country-rock hit, "Double Shot":
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>"One night with her is _plenty enough_

"One night a week is plenty enough"
(if memory serves)

LH

>"It's a good thing for me
>"They don't bottle that stuff"
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>-Wilson
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>On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:13 PM, sagehen <sagehen at westelcom.com> wrote:
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>>  >From the column, "Corporate  Focus" by Robert Weissman, editor
>>  /Multinational Monitor /:/
>>  .."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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