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Not as bad as “inflammable”, my personal vote for the most dangerous word in the English language.

• rorykoehler 5y ago
  Depress too. Depress the brake the example.
  • AussieWog93 5y ago
    I have never heard "depress" used that way (native speaker, AU).
    • rorykoehler 5y ago
      Common in Ireland and the UK. E.G. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-you-have-to-depress-the-clutch-when-starting-a-manual-car?share=1 https://www.quora.com/Why-do-you-have-to-depress-the-clutch-...
• zelos 5y ago
  So much so that they eventually removed it from hazard warnings.
• FriedrichN 5y ago
  What about disgruntled? Have you ever been gruntled?
  • teddyh 5y ago
    “Gruntled” is, in fact, a word.
• _Nat_ 5y ago
  It is pretty silly for "flammable" and "inflammable" to be commonly defined as synonyms. Also pretty silly for "flammable"/"inflammable" to be synonyms when "combustible"/"incombustible" are antonyms. Does seem like folks ought to stop using the old definition of "inflammable", but if they must, seems like it ought to be spelled as "enflammable", much like "enrage" displaced "inrage". ["Rebracketing", Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebracketing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebracketing) has a neat discussion about the interpretation-ambiguity.
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