Silly tautologies (part 3)

Regular readers of the Charles Fudgemuffin blog will be aware that when a blog post gets several views I often like to 'listen to the market', and feature a follow-up blog post on the same theme.

Tautology = Needless repetition

My 'silly tautologies' blog posts have received quite a lot of page views, so with that in mind, this week's blog post is another collection of silly tautologies*.

* I'm sure everyone already knows, but just to clarify, a tautology is a needless repetition of a word or idea in an unnecessarily repetitive manner.

1) DC Comics

The 'DC' in DC Comics was originally short for Detective Comics, so the full name of DC Comics is Detective Comics Comics!

2) Burntollet River

Burntollet River in Co. Derry in Northern Ireland is made up of three words; burn, tollet, and river.

'Burn' is the Scottish word for river, 'tollet' is the Irish word for river*, and 'river' is the English word for river. So Burntollet River is RiverRiver River!

Or BurnBurn Burn in Scottish! Or TolletTollet Tollet in Irish!

* Literally 'abundant flooding one', but basically a river.

Chai tea.

3) Chai tea

Chai is the Chinese word for tea, so strictly speaking, 'chai tea' is 'tea tea'!

4) Boulevard Journalist

In 19th century English, the term 'boulevard journalist' was used to desccribe an unscrupulous or corrupt journalist.

Based on today's establishment journalists, the word 'boulevard' seems unnecessary. Surely the fact that they're unscruplous and corrupt is already implied by the word 'journalist'!*

* With a small handful of exceptions.

5) Consecutive in a row

To be fair to journalists, not all of them are unscrupulous and corrupt. Some of them are just idiots! As demonstrated by the BBC journalist responsible for the following tweet...

'Nine consecutive wins in a row.'
A silly tautology from the numbskulls at the BBC.

Nine consecutive wins in a row? As opposed to nine consecutive wins not in a row with defeats interspersed in between?

To add to their ignorance, the BBC journalist has also apparently never heard of full stops.*

* Or periods for the benefit of our American readers.

6) Totally unanimous

I always like when a vote is totally unanimous. It's so much better than when a vote is partially unanimous!

7) Future predictions

I'm feeling quietly confident about my
'prediction' for Leicester City in 2015/16...

In general, most - in fact all - predictions tend to be about the future! That's what makes them predictions! If a prediction was about the past then it wouldn't be a prediction!

If you could make predictions about the past, then I'd be an expert at making predictions!

For example:

"I predict that Leicester City will win the Premier League in 2015/16."

You can find more silly tautologies in my previous blog posts:
Silly tautologies (part 1)
Silly tautologies (part 2)