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Blessed Event

Postby brogine » Sun Feb 07, 2021 2:37 pm

Announcing a new arrival to the family of amusing redundundancies!
Joining ‘ATM machine’ and ‘PIN number’ is ‘GOP party’ (Newsweek online) this very day, February 7, 2021. Mazel Tov!

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Re: Blessed Event

Postby Slava » Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:18 am

Given that there are fumbling rumblings of a possibly potential split in the party mentioned, perhaps this won't be repetitively redundant for long. We might end up with old and new versions of said grouping; the GOP, and the current name.

:?: If the proprietor of a tavern in Britain loses his license and then gets it back, does that make him a republican? :?:
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Re: Blessed Event

Postby brogine » Sat Feb 13, 2021 2:22 pm

Interesting that ‘Grand Old Party’ was first used only about twenty years after the party’s formation. And ‘GOP’ appears about ten years after that.

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Re: Blessed Event

Postby brogine » Mon Mar 15, 2021 4:44 pm

Ooh, ooh!
Just read - can’t confirm - that someone had seen
“PPE equipment”.

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Re: Blessed Event

Postby brogine » Sat Feb 26, 2022 6:15 pm

Yet another! Albeit, like its predecessor, a nonce usage:

GUT theory.

For non-science types, ‘Grand Unified Theory’ is a sought-after model of physics which would combine the basic forces in a unified understanding.

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Re: Blessed Event

Postby brogine » Thu Jul 06, 2023 3:35 pm

But wait . . .

Heard on public radio, July 5, 2023: VIN number.



Is this thing on . . . ?

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Re: Blessed Event

Postby bnjtokyo » Thu Jul 06, 2023 5:59 pm

Not quite the same thing but here in Japan we often hear and see signs stating things like "Tamagawa River" where Japanese-English dictionaries usually gloss "gawa" as "river"

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Re: Blessed Event

Postby Slava » Thu Jul 06, 2023 6:13 pm

As with Eyjafjallajökull glacier, where the 'jökull' part means glacier. It's related to the ikl of icicle, I'm led to believe by various sources.
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Re: Blessed Event

Postby brogine » Thu Jul 06, 2023 9:15 pm

Thanks to you both. A friend once referred to ‘Broadway Street’, talking about the one here in San Francisco.


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