Re: Celtic Stories (something to talk about)

[Sally Caves <scaves@frontiernet.net>]

On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Padraic Brown wrote:

> > > hand, and six hundred with the left.  Strong women goddesses, like Medb
> >                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 	As opposed to the man goddesses, I suppose. ;}
> 
That's what's called "pleonasm," hon.  Happens in a lot of languages.
Sally
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