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These ones/ those ones

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biryani · 28/02/2013 21:49

I keep hearing this and it really grates on me. Is it incorrect, though, or just clumsy English?

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tak1ngchances · 28/02/2013 21:49

What would you say instead?

CatWithKittens · 01/03/2013 10:40

tak1ngchances -
How about simply "these" or "those"?

somebloke123 · 01/03/2013 11:05

I think clumsy rather than actually incorrect. "These" or "those" are enough by themselves.

At least better than saying "them ones" though, as in Glenn Hoddle's "I never said them things".

Happygirl77 · 09/03/2013 20:30

It's incorrect (tautologous) - these or those suffices.

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