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by Dr. Verbos Metikulos

NUMBER ONE PRIORITY: This redundancy, like top priority, first priority, main priority, etc., is a symptom many politicians display when they check in at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired.  We teach them that whatever has priority is first.  That's what the word means.  Enough said.

That means a list of priorities is a list of things that come first.  No wonder we're so busy.

These patients also suffer from saying first of all, second of all, and so on to last of all, which is another part of the same impairment.  They can have a list, in order of importance, but items on a list occur first, second, third, and on to last.

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