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Two of my favorite "redundants" have already been mentioned:

"ATM Machine" - ATM stands for "automatic teller machine". You don't need to find an "automatic teller machine machine"
and
"Hot water heater" - the device heats cold, or even warm, water. Hot water doesn't need to be heated. It's a "Water heater"

Since I'm a professional geek, I'll add

"NIC Card". These are the "network interface cards" (these days they're usually actually built in) that let your computer connect to a network. Much like ATM machines, you don't need a network interface card card

anygunanywhere wrote:One of my pet peeves is when people make the "H" silent in a word when it isn't.

For some reason you hear this a lot in Humble, TX since they pronounce the word "umble". Just to annoy them I say Humble with the hard H.

Mrs Anygun has the habit of saying "umble" when she speaks of someone's virtue of humility.

Drives me up the wall but I let her off because she scares me.

Anygunanywhere

Ha, go to New York and ask them about "Houston Street" - you'll laugh.
Literally
But don't take your guns.

puma guy wrote:I hate when the word unique has a modifier. very unique, somewhat unique, pretty unique, etc. the word is like dead, either you are or you aren't

I posted before I read yours. Unfortunately, some dictionaries have capitulated.

rdhetrick wrote:I have a few, but I usually don't comment on them irregardless of who their from....

You hit mine. "Unique" has also been one, but it's been mis-used so often, most dictionaries have given in on the definition. For years, it meant "one of a kind". There was not "very unique", either it was, or was not "one of a kind".

A somewhat related "fun signnature" in the computer world:

There are 10 types of people in the world; those that understand binary, and those that don't