Example of pleonasm
May 31st, 2006
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France Telecom is to rebrand all its services as Orange.
Today’s dictionary.com word of the day is pleonasm.
The BBC quotes Sanjiv Ahuja, an executive from Orange, as saying:
“What we are offering is something that is easy to use, simple to use and hassle free.”
That is a pleonasm: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
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