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[rone]

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There's "once in a while" and "every so often"; "every once in a while" is a pleonasm.

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with pleonasm? "Every once in a while" is euphonious.

[palecur.livejournal.com]

Euphony is not a criterion. It can be a tiebreaker, at best.

[merde.livejournal.com]

as my old English teacher used to say, "you have to know the rules before you can break them." in both poetry and prose, brilliant writers have been breaking the rules for centuries.

every once in a while, circumstances demand a pleonasm. one hopes that ronebofh successfully achieved one with his furious grammar-wanking.

one does not, on the other hand, want to hear about it.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

"The Wanking Pleonasm" would be a great name for a band.