Tuesday, May 06, 2003

 
[Eugene, 4:39 PM]
"Pissant" + "u" = "puissant".

Monday, May 05, 2003

 
[Eugene, 9:57 AM]
"Flammable" = "Inflammable." "Valuable" more or less = "Invaluable"; technically, "invaluable" means "valuable beyond measure," but in common usage it has ended up meaning something much like simply "valuable."

     Reader Michael Lorton contributed the third item: "Heritable" = "inheritable."

     UPDATE: Reader Warren Yemm passes along another one, which is considerably more obscure -- "candescent" = "incandescent" (and likewise for "candescence"); and Brian Erst passes along "habitable" = "inhabitable."