Understand the wrong definition of inflammable and you might end up with more than an embarrassing situation while talking to your English professor. Inflammable and flammable are two words that are ...

The words flammable and inflammable are often misinterpreted as opposites. As a matter of fact, flammable and inflammable mean exactly the same — capable of burning. Eg:Petrol is highly flammable.

We’ve all been there: You’re about to write or say a word when you realize there are two forms and you don’t know which is correct. One of them is shorter, like dissociate, the other seems more ...

Hello and a very ?warm? welcome to the English Language Clinic. This week I have been asked to differentiate (establish a difference) between ?flammable? and ?inflammable?. The simple answer is that ...

A local library commissioner who’s a language-lover and a personal friend, recently professed curiosity about the confusing terms “flammable” and “inflammable,” and I muddied the water further by ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

There is no difference in meaning and little or no difference in use. Chemicals, gases or cloth materials that are flammable / inflammable catch fire and burn easily. Perhaps, in usage, cloth ...

There’s actually a simple explanation for the whole flammable-versus-inflammable confusion.

Inorganic electrolytes will do the trick the company says. For multi-MW grid-scale applications the company says its technology can boost battery life to 50,000 cycles and is non-flammable. It adds ...

Plenty of antonyms are as straightforward as they seem: inside versus outside, agree versus disagree, and so forth. But prefixes don’t always work how we expect them to, words don’t always keep the ...