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"Inflammable means flammable? What a country!" In this case the context makes the meaning clear, but this quirk of English has confused people for years.
by fphhotchips 6y ago
"Inflammable means flammable? What a country!"
In this case the context makes the meaning clear, but this quirk of English has confused people for years.
- tarsinge 6y agoIn French it’s inflammable for flammable too, but the weird one for me is inhabitants (it’s just habitants here).
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- leetcrew 6y agointerestingly, you can track this issue back to latin, which has a preposition "in" (meaning in, on, to), which is often attached to verbs, and a prefix "in-" which negates the word it's attached to.