User:Jnestorius/Exemplars of tautology
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Type | Double | Triple or more | Accepted | |
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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 |