54: Flammable versus Inflammable Jan 31, 2015

If ever you need to see why English is just so confusing and downright awful, this is your post. However much these two words would appear by grammatical rules to be opposite, the word 'flammable' meaning "easily set on fire", has the same definition as the word 'inflammable'. In addition to this lexical atrocity, the phrase "I can't hardly stand it" means the same thing as "I can hardly stand it".