Tautology is the needless repetition of a concept in a word or phrase. For example : a beginner who has just started (you can't be a beginner if you've been doing something for a long time).
Tautology happens frequently in place names when languages are mixed. In this blog I'm going to have a look at some of the more interesting examples that can be found all over the world, but I thought we'd start close to home with the River Avon. There are actually a number of River Avons in Britain and they basically mean River River. The word Avon comes from the Welsh word Afon, meaning river, which itself most likely origates from the Celtic word Abona, also meaning river.
Sources:
http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/River_Avon,_Bristol
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Avon
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