Flammable or Inflammable
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Posted by Bill Jacobs on September 25, 2002 at 09:23:01:
The organizarion that I work for purchased many (in the hundreds) of your plastic "Fold-A-Carier" in preperation for Y2K. I happened to look at the bottom of the container after becoming curious about how much watter the container held. I learned that the container holds five US gallons. Five gallons of what? The label states "Do not use for inflammable liquids". I realized that watter is inflammable and we have many of these containers filled with this infalmmable liquid.
I then looked up inflammable in the dictionary to make sure that I wasn't wrong. I was wrong, however, the use of the word inflamable is confusing. The dictionary definition of inflamable is flamable. Why not drop the confusion and drop the "in". The history of the word per Websters dictionary states that the word is confusing and in the 20th century the word flamable has replaced the word inflamable because of the confusion.
Thought I'd just mention it
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