Despite being cranky a lot of the time, I am really not a pedant. I mostly get annoyed with people who have highly paid jobs and should know better than to misuse the language, mispronounce words, and be stupidly repetitive. A good example was the ABC News last night, 10-3. The anchor in referring to a government program said they were "given the green light to go ahead." I think "given the green light" or "given the go-ahead" would have been sufficient. I guess this same anchor would say about a foreclosure, "They were given two weeks notice to be out in 14 days."
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