But yet

The phrase but yet is almost always a redundancy. Either but or yet usually conveys the same meaning in fewer words. Consider this sentence:

The government can’t even supply our people with simple, ordinary flu vaccine, but yet they can run the health care system?

This has the same meaning, without the redundancy:

The government can’t even supply our people with simple, ordinary flu vaccine, but they can run the health care system?

And so does this:

The government can’t even supply our people with simple, ordinary flu vaccine, yet they can run the health care system?

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