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[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Inflame - to burst into fire

Oh, so that's why the doctors had to remove my appendix!

But going back to being serious. My understanding is that the use of the term "flammable" basically only arose as an attempt to remove the ambiguity caused by the "in" prefix in "inflammable". Many organisations now prefer to avoid the term inflammable in favour of flammable for precisely that reason.

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[โ€“] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's a 400 year time period, you could make just about any valid excuse for the use of either, both have been used together for 200 years, and inflame is older than inflammable by 200 years.