Ever thought your bike had a superfluous wheel?
The development of English into the world's lingua franca suggests that spelling is not an insuperable barrier.Jonathan Lynn GenevaSIR – I wonder just how many words in the English language have a superfluous u between the letters o and r, as in the word "enamoured".
In 2010 Isabelle Aussourd and her husband, Jobic de Calan, bought a one-bedroom at 205 East 69th as well as an adjacent studio and a 42-square-foot landing (like 49 West 72nd, the building had a superfluous flight of stairs).
It was politicians, after all, who bought the line the Marlins' owners were selling, and green-lit hundreds of millions of dollars in public financing for a stadium that would, a little more than a year after it was finished, turn out to have a superfluous upper deck.
They believe that since interest rates are near zero, and commercial banks have a superfluous amount of reserves, that Fed Chairman Benjamin Bernanke has been rendered financially impotent.
Change is a big part of what keeps everything going, but why and how we seem to have a superfluous amount of unwed mothers not only appears to be a popular thing but also ubiquitous in nature.
Once you've untwisted the wires, you'll have a superfluous amount of copper wiring left; we don't need this much, but it's good to have it in the previous step to help in aligning the colors properly.
Christopher Lee as Francisco Scaramanga: The main villain and assassin who is identified by his use of a golden gun; he also has a 'superfluous areola', or supernumerary nipple.
In photographs and self-portraits, the young Dix has a quality of oddly superfluous conventional handsomeness, like that of the pre-Sergio Leone Clint Eastwood.
The world has a low tolerance for superfluous, jargon-saturated waffle and patronising bilge.
