Don’t forget the ETLA, for when TL just aren’t enough… 
Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome
Is not this the name for this ? And there already is a wiki page on it.link
The one that I deal with every year is the CENTS Show – the Central Environmental Nursery Trade Show Show. When I refer to it as the CENT Show, everyone corrects me. :rolleyes:
From back in the day: BBS Board. My dad had a habit of saying that.
SALT talks
NATO organization
SCUBA apparatus
The La Brea Tar Pits.
“La Brea” (the name of the town at one point, now absorbed into L.A.) being spanish for the tar, this would be, in english:
The The Tar Tar Pits.
Stargate SG1 - (unless the “sg” stand for something else.) This has always irked me.
Roast Beef Sandwich “with au jus.”
He wore a fez hat (or bowler hat.)
She carried a wee little pocketknife.
Similarly, there’s a region of Catalonia called the Vall d’Aran; Aran, as I understand it, is simply Basque for “valley.” So it’s the Valley of Valley.
I think a lot of place names end up being like this.
Although it’s not entirely wrong, FBI investigation sounds bad as Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation.
Every time you start up a machine running Windows NT, you’ll see the phrase “Based on NT Technology” at the load window. NT stands for New Technology.
Or canonically, BBS system.
ADAP Discount Auto Parts = American Discount Auto Parts Discount Auto Parts. Sounds like a song.
As an example, the word Sahara is from the Arabic term for “desert”, so Sahara Desert is redundant.
Indeed: the River Avon (Avon from the Welsh for river, afon). The River River.
Isn’t Chain Mail a redundonym?
(IIRC, mail is french for chain, right?)
SDMB message board
No, it’s a tautology.
I bought a beautiful rhododendron to put in the front foyer this morning, but when I got home, I found that my SO had already purchased and placed a rhododendron in the spot of my dreams. Now I am stuck with a redundodendron.[sup]*[/sup]
[sup]*[/sup]This entire story is a lie. I just wanted some excuse to type the word redundodendron.
I’m with you, but how else would one distinguish those tar pits from other tar pits? And if they are tar pits within La Brea, which includes things other than tar pits, isn’t it identifying which tar pits they are?
My nominees:
“my personal favorite”
“added bonus”
close proximity