We have not done a lot of blogging then when we first moved to India mostly because we have a typical life in the sense that we go to work every day and come home, we still do live in India which makes for some intersting observations. Again, I'm always impressed with other bloggers who seem to find the little things to blog about. So when I was looking over pictures from a recent trip I found this little interesting fact, something new I learned from India.
I took a picture of this because I thought it was funny that it said highly inflammable. I first assumed that inflammable meant the opposite of flammable. It seems like an oxymoron. However, on further discussion with Kevin and reference to Wikipedia it is actually written correctly. Here is the entry from Wikipedia entry on Flammability:
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I took a picture of this because I thought it was funny that it said highly inflammable. I first assumed that inflammable meant the opposite of flammable. It seems like an oxymoron. However, on further discussion with Kevin and reference to Wikipedia it is actually written correctly. Here is the entry from Wikipedia entry on Flammability:
Flammable and inflammable are synonyms and mean capable of burning. The word “inflammable” came from Latin “'inflammāre” = “to set fire to,” where the prefix “'in-”' means “in” as in “inside”, rather than “not” as in “invisible” and “ineligible”. Nonetheless, “inflammable” is often erroneously thought to mean “non-flammable”. In the United States, this safety hazard is typically avoided by use of flammable, despite its not being the proper Latin-derived term, on warning labels referring to physical combustibility.
The antonym of flammable/inflammable is non-inflammable, incombustible or non-combustible.So there you go, you learn something new everyday.
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