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  1. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!torn!nott!bnrgate!bcars267!bcars267!emcoop
  3. From: emcoop@bnr.ca (hume smith)
  4. Subject: Re: gurgitate
  5. In-Reply-To: glen@slate.cs.wisc.edu's message of Fri, 15 Jan 1993 16:35:09 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <EMCOOP.93Jan22111458@bcars148.bnr.ca>
  7. Sender: news@bnr.ca (usenet)
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: bcars148
  9. Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
  10. References: <1j60pvINNgi8@aludra.usc.edu> <glen.727115709@cs.wisc.edu>
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  12. Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:14:58 GMT
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  15. In article <glen.727115709@cs.wisc.edu> glen@slate.cs.wisc.edu (Glen Ecklund) writes:
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  17.    And then there's (there're?)
  18.         inflammable            flammable
  19.    except that, as I understand it, flammable became a word (in the US, at least),
  20.    because many people misunderstood inflammable, which was dangerous.
  21.  
  22. i saw non-inflammable on a plastic protractor when i was a child.  confused
  23. the hell out of me.
  24. --
  25. Hume Smith                                Honour sick and davey cris-cross
  26. hume.smith@acadiau.ca                     McTruloff sentimie
  27. emcoop@bnr.ca                             A parsnip inner pair threes.
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