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  2. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    One can also find a way around this verb, using another one which does not is used to express idiomatic expressions nor necessitate a pleonasm, because it only has one meaning: 我要就寝 ('I want "to dorm " ') Nevertheless, 就寝 is a verb used in high-register diction, just like English verbs with Latin roots.

  3. List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms - Wikipedia

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    (noun) restructuring, but with emphasis on lowering headcounts as in downsizing, termination as a redundancy; (verb) to downsize, lay off or terminate as a redundancy. When used in the passive (〜される: -sareru), to get or have been made redundant, downsized (out of a job) English ロードショー: rōdo shō: roadshow

  4. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    To is a preposition or is a part of a verb in the infinitive. At the end of a sentence to may also refer to a dropped verb in the infinitive. Standard: I have too much time on my hands. Standard: Kick it to me. trimester. A trimester is a period of three months. [113]

  5. Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United ...

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    abbreviation for Reduction In Force; i.e. to be honorably discharged from employment [787] (UK: redundancy, made redundant, laid off *, paid off) roil to render muddy by stirring up the dregs of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc., in casks or bottles; to roil a spring; also, to disquiet or disturb (also rile in the sense of "to anger", riled up for ...

  6. Tautology (language) - Wikipedia

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    "A pair of two"; by its nature, a pair is two items, so "a pair of two" is redundant. "What's for you won't go by you", a Scottish proverb that is tautological " Örökrangadó derby", the name of a football match contested between MTK Budapest and Ferencváros in Hungary. The name literally translates as "Derby Derby" in Hungarian. "Over ...

  7. American and British English grammatical differences

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    AmE further allows other irregular verbs, such as dive (dove) [9] [10] or sneak (snuck), [11] [12] and often mixes the preterite and past participle forms (spring–sprang, US also spring–sprung), [13] [14] sometimes forcing verbs such as shrink (shrank–shrunk) to have a further form, thus shrunk–shrunken.

  8. Reduplication - Wikipedia

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    In Dutch the verb "gaan" (to go) can be used as an auxiliary verb, which can lead to a triplication: we gaan (eens) gaan gaan (we are going to get going). The use of gaan as an auxiliary verb with itself is considered incorrect, but is commonly used in Flanders. [18]

  9. Redundancy (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a redundancy is information that is expressed more than once. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Examples of redundancies include multiple agreement features in morphology , [ 1 ] multiple features distinguishing phonemes in phonology , [ 2 ] or the use of multiple words to express a single idea in rhetoric . [ 1 ]