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Sometimes when we borrow words from other languages, English can become delightfully redundant.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica1 year ago

This is informative, illuminating, educational, and instructive.

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Hector Resendez - Trade School Secrets1 year ago

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Mikey Westside1 year ago

Thank thank you you

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Troy Greene1 year ago

Table Mesa is Table Table 😂

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Beatriz Caicedo1 year ago

Actually, La Brea would be just The Tar.

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Sinead O'Brien1 year ago

Now you got me excited. The word "hatchie" is a Cherokee term meaning 'river.' So anytime a Florida freshwater waterway that leads to a larger body of water 😉 is called "XYZ Hatchie River," you know. Also: it's amazing, timeless, and gets the 'hatchie' right:

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ItsMartianR1 year ago

Lake Tahoe: lake lake

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Jess 1 year ago

If you are English as your native tongue, you will never understand how quack-a-doodle your language is :]

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Areal Geography1 year ago

And I’m generally all for redundancy…which is def not repetition (etymologically at least) 🥹

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Mike Kohut1 year ago

Also “tuna fish” and “PIN number”.

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David Lee1 year ago

Here in northern England, we have (unofficially) Torpenhow Hill. "Hill-hill-hill Hill".

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