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Thanks for the replies. BTW, I didn't post this because tautological use bothers me (although it does), I posted it because I needed to know whether or not it is equally frowned upon in American English as it is in British English - and it looks as though the answer is indeed yes.

Edit - One last thing. Redundant language is nothing to do with dialect or regional variation, it's to do with not understanding what words mean and simply hearing phrases and regurgitating them without thinking. IMO.