First and foremost, I hope and trust that each and every one of you shares my basic and fundamental belief that needlessly repetitive and redundant word pairs are not only troublesome and bothersome but also vexing and irritating. We should, of course, be thankful and grateful, not worried and concerned, when a thoughtful and considerate teacher or editor makes a truly sincere effort to completely eliminate any unnecessary and superfluous words from our written compositions.
Put another way, redundancies clog our writing and bore our readers. So let's cut 'em out. Visit Practice in Cutting the Clutter.
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More and more people who should know better say, “The game starts in two hours from now.” … two hours from now … or in two hours but not “IN two hours FROM NOW. Why?
It is a bit redundant when someone says, “Meet me tomorrow morning at 8 AM”.
I had my nose broken 3 times in the same place. I’m going to stay out of that place from now on. (couldn’t resist)