Redundancy in Writing is not Good

rogersgeorge on August 2nd, 2024

So the writer changed it a bit to make it officially not redundant. See the caption under the picture.

https://www.gocomics.com/rubes/2024/06/19

“Humming” instead of “hemming.” (You know that “hemming and hawing” means indecisive, right?) I guess suggesting a redundancy and then not actually doing it is humorous…

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