Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 15:08:43 EST

From: TERRY IRONS t.irons[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MSUACAD.MOREHEAD-ST.EDU

Subject: Re: Bilingually Redundant Place names







Subject: Re: Texas town names

For you bilingualers, people out here in Arizona are into redundan-

cies: Picacho [big peak] Peak and Table Mesa [table].

Rudy Troike







My friend, Curtis Booth, a linguist doing penance as a technical writer, pointed

out to me the redundancy in The La Brea Tar Pits which might be seen

as The The Tar Pits Tar Pits.





To the list we can add, if memory serves me correctly, DRY BRANCH CREEK

somewheres in mid missouri. Properly, bidialectal, not bilingual,

unless you want to say southern branch speakers (and drinkers) speak

a different language.



Terry Irons