Tortology

Oh - I thought this was going to be a thread about what the correct term for the study of tortoise behaviour is!

Am I being dense (don't answer that!) but why the deliberate misspelling of tautology in your thread title??

And why is this in pendants corner ?
Alea perhaps your question and mine are connected. Did LuckyDucky do it deliberately to see if the pendants noticed

OK, Alea, I'm busted.

I didn't know how to spell it. Secondly, I decided if wrongly spelt it would stand out like a sore thumb. I was about to type saw thumb, then decided against it.

Seriously, how do I stop it?

I think that's the type of problem that requires professional help.

Perhaps it would help if you gave us an example of your problem? For the life of me I can't find one anywhere on this thread...

Why not look it up before posting, Lucky ?? Do you mean things like PIN number ? That's one example that springs to mind. I'm a bit puzzled about your question? Hope you're not avin a larf ?

The spelling of tautology I meant

Someone has been improperly tort.

if you can spell it in the post, then why ever not in the thread title? Unless it was designed just to catch the eye like that blessed "backwards" R in ToysRUs

But why would she want to catch our eye ? I can understand ToysRus doing it.

Are you there, Lucky?

Must have thought she was being funny...

Two ways of interpreting that word Ana ......

An example..
The students will take turns, one after the other.
one after the other has the same meaning a take turns, so is therefore superfluous.
The definition being 'Saying the same thing twice using different words'

I have no idea what the OP is about.

The study of very rich continental cakes?

Thanks nina, but I was hoping the OP would give us an everyday example what she considers to be her heinous complaint! If it's so bad, she must do it a lot...

LuckyDucky as your aware of the problem I'd have thought it fairly easy to stop (maybe I'm wrong) It would be worse if you didn't realise IMHO

Bella I don't understand your comment about 'PIN' numbers

I think we're all confusing one another on this thread

PIN = Personal Identification Number, so
PIN number = Personal Identification Number number.

Nina: Personal identification Number Number. We should just say PIN, otherwise the word number is superfluous. I had it pointed out to me !!

And still waiting for LuckyDucky's enlightenment. She's definitely around, elsewhere.

More succinct explanation than mine, Elegran ! I do tend to go round the houses.