Yeah, it’s based in Michigan, but Borders has six Dallas-area stories, including the one I often frequent at Lovers and Greenville. And the company just had to borrow $42.5 million from its largest investor to stay afloat, and it is mulling a sale. In the business press, we call that “murmur.”
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Isn’t “often frequent” redundant?
not in this context. “frequent” here is used as a verb and “often” is used as an adverb.
It’s still redundant — in the sense that “rush quickly” would be.
Not redundant.
In this sentence, frequent means “patronize.”
“often patronize” would be correct, therefore “often frequent” is also correct.
If they had left the store at Coit and Arapaho open, they would be fine now, seeing as 1/3rd my paycheck seemed to go there.
It means to patronize often. So it’s a location that Eric “often patronizes often.” Redundant. (Still, only a blogpost.)
While I have the Department of Redundancy Department’s attention, I would like on ruling on this: sports—mostly hockey–writers sometimes refer to a pass as a “feed pass.” I think a pass is a feed and therefore redundant. My god, I’m turning into Tim.
And now I’ve forgotten my PIN number.
Nancy,
Sounds logical, but as you know a “feed pass” in hockey is a specific type of pass where usually a forward in the offensive zone who is stationary either on the low post or the wing passes it to a streaking forward or D coming from the high slot. Result: usually a biscuit in the basket.
Oh no! I love Borders. Much better than B&N in my opinion. If you’ll excuse me, I need to go buy $42.5 million in books.