Date:  Fri, 25 Feb 1994 07:58:40 PST

From:  Peter Benson <benson[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ACDCA.ITT.COM>

Subject: Bilingually Redundant Place names



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From: Rudy Troike <RTROIKE%ARIZVMS.BITNET[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu>

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





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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.



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