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Heads up, "proscribe" also means "forbid".

• Pxtl 6y ago
  Hooray for English words where antonyms sound almost exactly the same. Prescribe/proscribe.
  • pavlov 6y ago
    Also fun is the “de” prefix which can mean either removal or its opposite, intensification: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/de- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/de- Hence “to defraud” doesn’t mean removing fraud.
    • hanche 6y ago
      Not to mention “inflammable”, which means the same as “flammable”. Because the former is so easily misunderstood – and has been – warning labels now use the latter.
  • jcranmer 6y ago
    Try "inter-" and "intra-", in a Boston accent. It makes a big difference if your analysis is interprocedural or intraprocedural, but they both sound the same in that accent...
• corty 6y ago
  Thanks, fixed it.