At 17:38 -0800 2004-12-10, Asmus Freytag wrote:
Other examples of apparent redundancy, are
Cakes -> Keks (German), plural Kekse
Baby -> bebis (Swedish), plural bebissar
and there are many more such examples.
In Ireland sometime in the early nineties, the Allied Irish Bank became AIB Bank, the Allied Irish Bank Bank.
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