Gather Together the Full Gamut of Redundancy

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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