October 21, 2011
We are all guilty occasionally of redundant writing, and in truth it isn’t easy to avoid all the time. But there are redundant phrases that can make a writer look a little silly at times. Redundant refers to verbosity and duplication, which is fine in everyday speech, but unforgivable in professional writing disciplines. Here are some redundant [...]
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October 10, 2011
Sounds like a wart removing cream of some description, I know, but actually it’s a figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory terms. Oxymoron is adapted from the 5th century Latin “oxymoron”, which is derived from the Ancient Greek oxus, meaning sharp, and mōros, meaning dull. The plural can be either oxymorons or oxymora. The most common [...]
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