Department of Redundancies
Department
These are simply pet peeves...
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Free gift.
If it isn't free, it really isn't a gift.
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Hot water heater.
I'm sure you don't really have a hot water heater; if you had hot
water, you wouldn't need it heated. You more likely have a water
heater or a hot water tank.
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Past history.
What other kind of history is there?!
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PIN number.
PIN is an acronym for persona identification number, so saying "PIN
number" is saying "personal identification number number."
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The La Brea Tar
Pits. "La brea" is Spanish for "the tar pits." So "The La
Brea Tar Pits" translates to "the the tar pits tar pits."
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UPC code.
Those bars on the sides of most every product in the store are
called a universal product code, or UPC for short. So when you say "UPC
code" you're saying "universal product code code."
May, 2021
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