And, coming in April…ACT tests
Or around here…PSAE exam (Prairie State Aptitude Exam) It’s the test all high school juniors have to take.
I see the idiocy of the redundancy, and love that term redundonyms, but, since it’s so prevalent, there must be some human need for the reiteration. We might call the last word an “indicator” word, which guides those who don’t know the acronym to at least know what sort of thing is being talked about. However irritating, it does serve a purpose.
I’m no linguist, but hope that one of our Linguist Dopers can give an in-depth take on it.
Please RSVP.
And along the same lines as AIB Bank, here in Missouri we have UMB Bank–United Missouri Bank Bank (which is a perfect place to key in your PIN number at the ATM machine).
You missed the VIN number (Vehicle Identification Number) number.
“He wore a cane and derby hat, they called him Bat, Bat Masterson.”
Yeah, I’m old.
I’ll see your River River and raise you Hillhillhill Hill.
I always thought SALT (in this context) referred to Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty?
(On preview, Wikipedia says both are technically correct…)
“RAM Memory” strikes me as curiously redundant, as does “CD (or DVD) Disc”…
You’re right. Many’s the time I had to tediously ask which tar pit my friends were wanting to meet me at. Thank God for the few precious times it was La Brea. No endless questions about directions and nearby landmarks, double-checking maps and coordinates, just hop in the car and go.
This one had me laughing until I realized that RAID Array (a bunch of disks in a RAID configuration) is a perfectly non-redundant term, when used to differentiate from RAID Disk (a single disk in the array.)
But I’m just bitter that Khadaji beat me to the punch with FAT Table. 
PPBBBT! 
Yeah well there’s also the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and a ton of Spanish rivers with names that start by Guada-… I just don’t think it counts if you’re mixing languages.
How exactly do you wear a cane? The way I’m thinking, you’d need a very skinny neck.
MRI Image (Magnetic Resonace Imaging Image)…although this is missing a word in a sense, it should be an MRI machine image.
LANL Lab (Los Alamos National Laboratory Laboratory)…actually government is fertile ground for this effort.
Sailboat
Or maybe a guy could weat it below the waist at times. :eek:
I seem to remember a dispute on the board a few months back that this (along with others such as NFL Football and MLS Soccer) would not be redundant because MLB, NFL, and MLS refer to specific leagues. There could still be Minor League Baseball, Arena Football League Football, or World Cup Soccer, for example.
For some gentlemen who aren’t lame, a fancy cane is part of the wardrobe. Gregory House uses a cane; Bat Masterson wore a cane. Not many men these days have a cane if they don’t need help walking. Leon Redbone does an old song about a fellow who “can’t be seen without my cane.” 
Okay. I follow that logic somewhat. All I meant was that Major League Baseball Baseball strikes me (pun intended) as redundant.
A pseudoredundancy is East Timor, as Timor means “east.” (In Indonesian it’s called Timor Timur.) Of course, the two easts mean different things: it’s the eastern half of the eastern island.
I’m not following this reasoning. I don’t care if it’s the AFL or NFL, it is football. Whether the “M” stands for major or minor, it is baseball. There is no need to put the words football or baseball after the acronymn because the sport is already defined.
A recursive redundonym from Dilbert:
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The TTP Project**
Where TTP stands for The TTP Project