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The Skeptics Guide #924 - Mar 25 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The French Word Pleinasm

The word pleinasm is from the Latin via the Greek. Its first use was in the 1580s. George Poutinhaum first used it, the first surplisage. The Greeks call pleonasmus. I call him to full speech and is no great fault. As if a man could hear with his heels or see with his nose. We ourselves use this superfluous speech in a verse written of our mistress,. This is written in like a weird form of English. So it's a very old word. And I've literally never come across it. But I'm so glad I did because I think it's just useful.

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