We sometimes use ‘pleonasms’ without giving them a second thought.
And what are they?
A ‘pleonasm’ is what we use when we repeat ourselves.
Here are some examples:
PIN means a ‘personal identification number’. So we don’t need to say ‘PIN number’.
And ‘vast majority’. ‘Majority’ means the largest part of a group. So we don’t need the word ‘vast’.
Did you catch that pleonasm in the heading? We don’t need ‘again’, because ‘repeat’ means to say again!
