Puzzling Redundancies

Posted by Editormum on Thursday, 30 November 2006 in Usage and Diction | ∞

You see them all the time. Phrases in which the main idea is repeated more than once. (Yes, I did that on purpose.) Take, for example, the phrase I saw today in an article about ugly team uniforms. The author mentioned the “arm sleeves.” Why? When you are talking about clothing, sleeves are the arms. […]