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I don't care how long its been wrongly used its still wrong.
( , Tue 25 Jun 2013, 14:43, 1 reply, 12 years ago)
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Irregardless
Adverb
Without paying attention to the present situation; despite the prevailing circumstances.
Synonyms
notwithstanding
( , Tue 25 Jun 2013, 14:45, Reply)
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- other than that a normal person would use the latter and a bent spastic the former.
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The words inflammable and flammable both have the same meaning, ‘easily set on fire’. This might seem surprising, given that the prefix in- normally has a negative meaning (as in indirect and insufficient), and so it might be expected that inflammable would mean the opposite of flammable, i.e. ‘not easily set on fire’.
In fact, inflammable is formed using a different Latin prefix in-, which has the meaning ‘into’ and here has the effect of intensifying the meaning of the word in English.
Flammable is a far commoner word than inflammable and carries less risk of confusion.
( , Tue 25 Jun 2013, 15:07, Reply)
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