Fizan Ahmed

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Things are so confusing that even native users have shown signs of mental fatigue and left us with two forms meaning the same thing: flammable and inflammable, iterate and reiterate, ebriate and inebriate, habitable and inhabitable, durable and perdurable, fervid and perfervid, gather and forgather, ravel and unravel.
Fizan Ahmed
Not a native user myself but yeah, that's plain annoying.
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
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