'Inflammable' Means 'Flammable'

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The Grammar Girl Week in Review 'Inflammable' Means 'Flammable' When we're describing something that burns easily, we say it's flammable, but inflammable means the same thing and was the original word, so why do we have both? Many people mistakenly thought that inflammable meant “resistant to burning,” which it doesn’t. The -in Prefix Has Multiple Meanings The in-prefix usually has a negative meaning, as in indelible which means “can’t be deleted” and indefinite, which means “not defined.” But the in-prefix has another use too...Read More 07/22/2016 10:01am View           Third Person Limited (and More) There are a few key decisions that a writer has to make early in the writing process. Where is your book going to be set? Who will the protagonist be? What is the central conflict? Before any of these decisions can be made, however, you first have to decide what point of view (or POV) will best serve your manuscript...Read More 07/22/2016 12:05am View               FROM QUICK AND DIRTY TIPS Get More Grammar Girl Visit the website. Subscribe to the Grammar Girl podcast at iTunes or via RSS. Find Grammar Girl books, gear, and more at the Quick and Dirty Tips store. Have Questions? Search the Quick and Dirty Tips website. We have more than 600 articles about grammar and language. There's a good chance your question has already been covered.                 Best wishes, (and the Quick and Dirty Tips Team)                 Want more tips? If this was forwarded to you by a friend and you'd like to receive future tips, you can sign up here. Please don't use the subscribe/unsubscribe link at the bottom of the page because this will overwrite your friend's subscription. (If this came directly to you, you can use the subscribe/unsubscribe link below to manage your subscription.)                 FOLLOW ME

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