Headline syntactic haplogy?

[Jonathan Lighter]

I hear this sort of thing on the news all the time.

Why repeat a word just to make sense?

JL


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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