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I know you're memeing a quote, but the etymology of "flammable" is kind of awesome. Flammable is a word, invented several times over history (most recently in
by quesera 10y ago
I know you're memeing a quote, but the etymology of "flammable" is kind of awesome.
Flammable is a word, invented several times over history (most recently in the 1940s), to mean that same thing as "inflammable" (able to become inflamed) because it's important to get correct and the in- prefix confuses people into thinking it means the opposite.
French and Italian apparently have words beginning ininflam- which mean "not-inflammable". Americans prefer an the less ambiguous concoction: "non-flammable".