Stephen Colbert was just talking about how we need a word czar. He brought up the point that flammable & inflammable means the same thing. My first reaction was to laugh because Stephen Colbert is just funny. Then I had an aha moment. Really inflammable should mean that something is difficult to set on fire.
According to Dictionary.com:
Inflammable: capable of being set on fire; combustible; flammable.
Flammable: easily set on fire; combustible; inflammable.
Stephen is both funny & right.
2 comments:
The flammable/inflammable thing has always bugged me. I'd personally like to be a language czar.
wow..it is the first time that i heard this word "czar"..fascinating!!:
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