Timeline for Is it correct to use both "first" and "initial" in "first initial reaction"?
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| Feb 11, 2023 at 0:02 | comment | added | alphabet | (Granted, where I am people typically drop the /t/ in "first," so it may sound more like "firsinitial.") | |
| Feb 10, 2023 at 23:55 | comment | added | alphabet | I suspect this is a regional thing, at least with the word "reaction." I can certainly find uses of it, say, on Reddit: google.com/… | |
| Feb 10, 2023 at 22:30 | comment | added | John Bollinger | Yes, I agree that there are examples of wording redundancies that are common, at least regionally. I know "tiny little" well. "Last and final" sounds a little stilted to me, but I'm sure I've heard it before. But "first initial" just sounds bad to me. That particular redundancy is in no way common in the various parts of the Southern and Midwestern U.S. where I've spent enough time to be willing to judge. | |
| Feb 10, 2023 at 22:19 | comment | added | alphabet | I think this is a reasonably common phrase (Northeast US). There are other examples: "a tiny little car," "your last and final warning," et cetera. | |
| Feb 10, 2023 at 19:16 | comment | added | John Bollinger | Redundancy in general is reasonably common in informal communication, but I can't say that I recall ever running across the particular redundancy in question here. Maybe it's a regional thing. Anyway, depending on which "this" you mean, I might or might not agree about it being common. | |
| Feb 10, 2023 at 2:41 | history | answered | alphabet | CC BY-SA 4.0 |