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TAUTOLOGICAL NAMES (cont’d) • In California, there’s Laguna Lake, with “laguna” being Spanish for “lake.” • Lake Tahoe straddling the California/Nevada border comes from the English version of the Washoe word for lake, “da-aw.” Lake Tahoe is the 6th largest freshwater lake in the U.S. after the Great Lakes. • Lake Chad, located on the edge of the Sahara Desert, comes from the Bornu word for lake, “tsade.” This lake shrank by 95% between 1963 and 2001 due to overuse. • The Sahara Desert comes from the Arabic word meaning “greatest desert.” • The Gobi Desert comes from the Mongolian word for desert, “govi.” The first dinosaur eggs were found in the Gobi Desert. • Then you have all the places all over the world that are named “Glendale” with the Gaelic word “gleann” meaning “valley” and the Norse word “dail” also meaning “valley.” • Even the Milky Way galaxy is a tautological phrase, since the word “galaxy” comes from the Greek “galaxias” meaning “milky vault.” • Tautological phrases are not limited to places. For instance, there’s chai tea, when the word “chai” is Russian for tea. The Italian word for shrimp is “scampi” so “shrimp scampi” means “shrimp shrimp.” • There’s even a whole separate category of tautological abbreviations, known as RAS syndrome which is short for “redundant acronym syndrome syndrome.” A perfect example is when you use your PIN number at the ATM machine, since PIN stands for “Personal Identification Number” and ATM is short for “Automatic Teller Machine.” Then there’s the VIN number on cars (“Vehicle Identification Number number) and LCD displays (Liquid Crystal Display display).
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