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Quadruple tautology
Torpenhow Hill
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Not an acronym, but I’ve always found The Los Angeles Angels to be greatly amusing since it translates to “The The Angels Angels.”
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Is there a name for the uncontrollable urge to come up with acronyms, no matter what, at the slightest provocation?
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My personal favorite redundancy is “…and etcetera”
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The new country next to Indonesia is “East Timor”, but since “Timor” in Indonesian means “east”, the country name means “East East”. Not an acronym, but still…
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It’s CAT: compulsive acronym tendency.
I have it, and I just made that up.
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VAB Building,- vehicle assembly building building.
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“chai tea” is redundant not just for Hindi speakers, but for anyone who is remotely familiar with Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Hindi, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish, Urdu, Croatian, Czech, Georgian, Greek, Romanian, Serbian, Swahili, Thai, Ukrainian, Wolof, or any of the even more numerous languages with similar words like “cha.”
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In Japanese, either “dera” or “ji” (same character with different readings) at the end of something means “temple,” so “Kiyomizudera Temple” and “Sensoji Temple” are redundant. Same with “jinja” or “jingu” (although the ja and gu are different characters) and “shrine.”
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Perhaps?
Is absolutely, certainly tea to anyone n the world.
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No, I’m sure I’ve heard of CAT tendency before. It may not be well known to the hoi polloi. 
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In defence of the Sahara Desert, it is sufficiently desert to say it twice.
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Of course the fact that the name change was made by the owner of the club, the son of mexican immigrants who one would expect understood the odd repetition of words, is doubly odd
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SEO optimization.
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I think that’s AGS (American government syndrome)
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FMEA Analysis
SSD Drive
IRA Account
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Actually, the La Brea Tar Pits is like saying “the the tar tar pits.”
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