Inflamable or flammable?, which one do you normally use?

[Ataxerxes]

I use flammable. I agree that inflammable is a stupid word. A synonym with a prefix that indicates the opposite is stupid. Also, there have been cases where people who aren't native English speakers think, logically enough, that something inflammable won't burn. I would hate to be even partially responsible for some disaster arising from that.

Frankly, somebody should set the word inflammable on fire and burn it up! It's also completely unneccesary as a word.

 

[civ_king]

I use flammable because America is filled with idiots with such paltry lexicons

 

[Dachs]

Either one. Depends on how fast I'm speaking, or what I've most recently seen used in other contexts. Don't really care.

I use flammable. I agree that inflammable is a stupid word. A synonym with a prefix that indicates the opposite is stupid. Also, there have been cases where people who aren't native English speakers think, logically enough, that something inflammable won't burn. I would hate to be even partially responsible for some disaster arising from that.

Frankly, somebody should set the word inflammable on fire and burn it up! It's also completely unneccesary as a word.

Quoted user knows neither how to read a thread or how to understand Latin.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Contrary to the Simpsons video posted above (which is in Latin american Spanish) in Spanish from Spain it is "inflamable" as in English.

 

[Takhisis]

Because Spanish retains vestiges of a superior language which American cavemen do not.