#299

The Times, December 16, 2017

This is a classic tautology, which means saying the same thing in two ways or adding an unnecessary qualifier, such as ‘rise up’ and ‘personally I think’.  A ‘gift’ is by definition something ‘given’. The clue is in the similarity of the words. Not content with having this basic error in the heading, the Times repeated it in the intro and display quote.

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