>jumbo shrimp, which is now so common that nobody recognizes it as an oxymoron any more.

I'm gonna stick my neck out here. Conventional wisdom is that jumbo shrimp is an oxymoron, but I'm not convinced CW is correct in this case. Shrimp's an animal, and the word comes from (apparently) an OE word for to shrink up. So there's definitely a relationship to smallness, but I maintain that so long as there are different sizes of the animal you have to be able to make the distinction.







TEd