>>>>She might say, "Is everybody here?" I or my brother might answer something like, "Unlikely, the room isn't very big, after all."
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>>>>Or she'd say, "Well, I myself feel that....", and of course we'd have to ask, "As opposed to you, somebody else?"
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>>>One of my favorites (not!) is "7 AM in the morning." That's as opposed to 7 AM in the evening?
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>>>Tamar
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>>That one bugs me too, as does most expressions that tautologically use superfluous words more than are needed.
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>>The song "Moonlight Shadow"P: " ... four AM in the morning / carried along by a moonlight shadow": if only she'd sung "four o'clock in the morning" which scans just as well.
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>>Incidentally, just as annoying is Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die":
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>>"... in this ever-changing world in which we live in" uses "in which" to avoid putting the preposition at the end of the sentence ... then he up and puts it there anyway!
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>What about "repeat again"?

Unless they've already repeated it, then that is a tautology