http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2661
"Dept of Redundancy dept" comes from a 1970 record album - see the 7th post the discussion at this URL gets into city names vs post office addresses vs redundancy etc Reportedly - there is no Dukes County in Massachusetts - but there is a County of Dukes County - or Dukes County County - or Dukes County Squared New York is the real name of NYC - or something like that - apparently the real name is City of New York - not City of New York City ---------------------------------- So if you get arrested on Martha's Vineyard - when you get to court - ask the judge about the police report - does it say the incident was in Dukes County or Dukes County County? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
