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Re: Tesla crash

Posted by pragmatist on Mon Apr 19 11:30:36 2021, in response to Re: Tesla crash, posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Apr 19 10:03:35 2021.

Flammable vs. inflammable
There is no difference in meaning between flammable and inflammable. Both describe things that are capable of burning or easy to ignite, but in all modern varieties of English, flammable is preferred.



Inflammable, derived from the verb inflame, is the original word. But because the first syllable is easily misinterpreted as the common negative prefix in- (as in, for example, inescapable, invulnerable, inorganic), the word has always caused confusion. Because this confusion can have dangerous real-world consequences, the shift from inflammable to flammable is welcome.

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