I love this article by the vice president, executive managing editor and copy chief of Random House, listing commonly used phrases with redundant words that should be removed from your writing…
- hollow tube
Bet you hadn’t thought of that one, had you.- hourly (or daily or weekly or monthly or yearly) basis
- integrate with each other
- interdependent upon each other
- join together
- kneel down
- knots per hour
One knot = one nautical mile per hour.- last of all
- lesbian woman
Come on, folks. Think.
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