Under the rubric "Lapses, let me start with two flagrantly poor specimens of usage, which I find particularly painful. Both are exemplars of redundancy, excess verbiage that can and should be jettisoned. It comes in two forms: both as pleonasm, whichinvolves two adjacent, duplicating words of which television is particularly fond, though it crops up everywhere, as in "old crone" (as if there were such a thing as a yo…
SOURCE: John Simon at 03:42PM on August 20, 2018