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User:Jnestorius/Exemplars of tautology

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Type Double Triple or more Accepted
double negative We don't need no education I don't take nothing from nobody
double comparative more nicer; worser; equally as; increasingly more more worser lesser uppermost
double superlative most favourite; bestest topmost
double preterite [drownded* drownd is variant of drown]
double perfect If I had/would/'d have/of/a known... after having done X, Y happened; I would have liked to have known you; drunken, sunken
repeated "is" the thing is, is that... what it is is ...
half-Dryden this crazy world in which we live in from whence
lexicon widow woman, misdoubt, unthaw Oftentimes, fisherman, beggarman, horseback riding/on horseback, tuna fish

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