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Famously Flammable or Infamously Inflammable? Is There Even a Difference?

This entry was posted in language guru, serious and tagged english, flammable, inflammable, language, misconceptions, mistakes on November 15, 2013 by Robert .
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I got seriously confused the day I discovered that flammable and inflammable mean the same thing. Why would you even invent a new word which means exactly the same as one which already exists? Even worse, why would you make it sound like the opposite? Maybe it is time to work out why this happened(…)

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