Anime Sub Indo: 10 Redundant Acronyms You Can Drop From Your Vocabulary

Monday, 10 February 2025

10 Redundant Acronyms You Can Drop From Your Vocabulary

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10 Redundant Acronyms You Can Drop From Your Vocabulary

Is it a pet peeve for you when someone calls the ATM an "ATM machine"? For those of you who aren't that picky about your words, "machine" is redundant after "automated teller machine." Let's learn about a few more repeated words to cut from your acronyms.

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Idioms

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Why Do We Say "Costs an Arm and a Leg"?

From literal to figurative roots, learn the reasons why we describe expensive items as "costing an arm and leg" instead of "an eyeball and an ear."

Slang

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Can You Cats Dig This Hippie Slang?

Flower power, groovy threads, and cool cats were the calling cards of the hippie generation. Can you keep up with this slang?

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What Part of Speech Is the Word "Is"?

It's one of the most commonly used words in the English language — so ubiquitous and so short that it slips by almost unnoticed. But "is" is important, and it does some heavy lifting.

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From Boomer to Gen Alpha: How Generation Names Are Invented

People can be categorized into many groups — location, race, gender, political affiliation — but age is a great common denominator. Generations are classified by agreed-upon time periods, and everyone falls into one of these groups, from the Silent Generation of the 1920s to the up-and-coming Gen Alpha.