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<br>  1. (In)flammable (6)
<br>  2. flat
<br>  3. pron question (8)
<br>  4. Tuition
<br>  5. Pron. question
<br>  6. un- & -ate (2)
<br>  7. Sub-additivity
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<br>Date:    Tue, 21 Apr 1998 00:49:58 -0600
<br>From:    "Donald M. Lance" <engdl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SHOWME.MISSOURI.EDU>
<br>Subject: Re: (In)flammable
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<br>I intended to send this msg to ads-l, but the header on Chambers' ads-l
<br>msgs causes "Reply to" to send the reply to him rather than to ads-l.
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<br>>Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 00:44:58 -0600
<br>>To: maelduin[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ozemail.com.au
<br>>From: "Donald M. Lance" <engdl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]showme.missouri.edu>
<br>>Subject: Re: (In)flammable
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<br>>>Not "un" but "in", and related?
<br>>>Somewhere (Australia?) a conscious policy to delete the 'in' from
<br>>>'inflammable' was made.It was felt that those speaking English as a
<br>>>second language would perceive dangerous goods marked in this way as not
<br>>>flammable.
<br>>>Is this an example of successful prescription?
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<br>>>Regards - Ross Chambers
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<br>>There are two _in-_ prefixes, one being a negator and the other referring
<br>>to 'enabling'.  So 'inflammable' refers to an object consisting of a
<br>>substance that may be 'inflamed' when subjected to a heat source above a
<br>>certain temperature -- though this is not the most common use of
<br>>'inflame'.  Discussions of the inappropriateness of the term 'inflammable'
<br>>are typical of dicta offered by prescriptivists who don't want to bother
<br>>doing homework because they already know everything that anyone could
<br>>possibly learn about language by consulting dictionaries etc.
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<br>DMLance
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