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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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(in)flammable
Surely that's a cock up in the distant history of the English language? You would expect that inflammable would mean 'not flammable'. Instead, we have to say 'not flammable', or even 'not inflammable'.

What a bizarre language we speak.
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