# Apart from "that that", are there other words that ever make sense repeated? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 30, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212 "2012-01-30T18:06:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/61 "2012-01-30T21:29:06Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Not to mention _Gorilla gorilla gorilla_ You mean the Western lowland gorilla (_Gorilla gorilla gorilla_)? – _Gorilla gorilla_ subspecies are so confusing. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/62 "2012-01-30T21:39:20Z")
And, in keeping with the buffalo theme, the magnificent beast of the American plains is _Bison bison bison_. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/63 "2012-01-30T21:45:24Z")
Not to mention the water buffalo _Bubalis bubalis bubalis_. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/64 "2012-01-30T21:49:55Z")
> [@Bootis](#): > > In my neighborhood, instead of ice cream trucks, we have Man-wich vans. (Man-wiches are a brand of Sloppy Joe’s) Oddly, we often have several competing Man-wich vans arrive at the same time. What is even more strange, is all the men who drive the vans are dressed up as witches! When I hear their bells ringing and am in the mood for a Man-wich, I step outside, and am forced to ask myself, > > "Man, which man-witch Man-wich man which man’s _which_ man-witch Man-wich van? Try as I might, I cannot parse this, though it sounds very cool! ---
**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/65 "2012-01-30T21:53:03Z")
> [@SeldomSeen](#): > > It depends on what the definition of “is” is. Ha ha. ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/66 "2012-01-30T21:56:42Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Try as I might, I cannot parse this, though it sounds very cool! the second “which” should technically be a “who” ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/67 "2012-01-30T22:08:20Z")
I don’t mind icing cakes, but icing icing is ridiculous. (There are probably a lot more like this) ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/68 "2012-01-30T22:10:08Z")
A horny stag does does. I have worn worn shoes. In a storm, you might see a shed shed its roof. - but not a stable, if it were a stable stable. A pile of hampers hampers his escape from the laundry room. The judgement was not harsh; just just. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/69 "2012-01-30T22:21:04Z")
> [@Telperion](#): > > Biology books are filled to the brim with that kind of thing, albeit in Latin. _Vulpes vulpes_, _Alces alces_, _Axis axis_, _Dama dama_…Well, you get the picture. Random trivia: such genus-species pairs are known as _tautonyms_. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/70 "2012-01-30T22:32:59Z")
Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/71 "2012-01-30T22:35:45Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Winnie the Pooh > > I think it would help with this deception if > you would just kind of open your umbrella and say, “Tut-tut, it looks like rain.” .. > [@](#): > > Originally posted by Christopher Robin > > Tut-tut, it looks like rain. Tut-tut, it looks like rain. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/72 "2012-01-30T22:46:30Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Not to mention the water buffalo _Bubalis bubalis bubalis_. Which typically stands in water higher than its tailbone, and is a martyr to flatulence - hence its name. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/73 "2012-01-30T22:59:15Z")
I just happened to write this sentence and thought of this thread, “I said that I would be in in the morning.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/74 "2012-01-31T00:16:35Z")
And when Christopher Robin said it to an Egyptian pharaoh, he said, “Tut-tut, Tut, it looks like rain.” ---
**Author:** ![Normal\_Phase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Normal\_Phase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Normal_Phase)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/75 "2012-01-31T00:41:48Z")
There’s no there there. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/76 "2012-01-31T00:58:43Z")
Aye aye, captain. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/77 "2012-01-31T01:32:58Z")
I’m surprised no one’s mentioned **great** yet, and relative-naming conventions in general. My great great grandfather was a _great_ great great grandfather. He was my father’s father’s father’s father. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/78 "2012-01-31T02:34:46Z")
Yeah, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/79 "2012-01-31T02:35:58Z")
and, if I may quote the Fab Four, Yeah, yeah, yeah! ---
**Author:** ![SmartAlecCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SmartAlecCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAlecCat)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apart-from-that-that-are-there-other-words-that-ever-make-sense-repeated/611212/80 "2012-01-31T02:46:24Z")
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