Redundant definitions of redundancy

[madbaker]

"The La Brea Tar Pits" or "The El Camino Road".

Add: "Small Cipollini Onions". "Cipollini" means "small onion".

Comments

[misagillian.livejournal.com]

Two of my favorites:

ATM Machine

Mount Fujiyama (Yama means mountain..)

[spiderdust.livejournal.com]

Don't forget "PIN number".

[albionwood.livejournal.com]

And SALT talks. (May be dating myself here.)

[wingedcorset.livejournal.com]

Before WWII, my step-paternal grandmother's family owned a banquet hall/cafe in London called The La Boheme. It still makes me giggle.

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

Ok...it took me a moment to realize what you're objecting to in the phrase "Small Cipollini Onions" isn't the "small", but the "onion". Because "Small Cipollinis" would be really tiny - maybe grape-sized. If such a thing exist.

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

The phrasing sense was "small onions of the cipollini variety". It's still a double redundancy.

[goldenstag.livejournal.com]

Add: "Small Cipollini Onions". "Cipollini" means "small onion".

They mean really small, obviously ... TINY onions.

[finickynarcane.livejournal.com]

Chille con carne with meat. ISBN number.