Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site decvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!goutal From: goutal@decvax.UUCP (Kenneth G. "Kenn" Goutal) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: "rate of speed" rankles Message-ID: <104@decvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-May-83 16:36:04 EDT Article-I.D.: decvax.104 Posted: Fri May 27 16:36:04 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 29-May-83 02:59:00 EDT References: <427@pyuxmm.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Columbus Lines: 12 Re: phrases that rankle Can't resist... "rate of speed" Seems to me that "speed" is a rate of travel or motion, thus the "rate of" is redundant. I believe this falls into the category someone has dubbed "baby puppies" -- like oxymorons, only the other way around. -- Kenn (decvax!goutal)