NY wrote
Rod Speed wrote

Hopefully "inflammable" will be expunged from the English language one
day (prefer "flammable"

Its flammable that is dying out.

"Flammable" is the official word used in Health and Safety briefings
(https://www.hse.gov.uk/fireandexplosion/about.htm) and the Fire Brigade
(https://www.firesafe.org.uk/safe-wor...e-substances/).

Irrelevant to the use in the english language.

It will take longer for "inflammable" to disappear from "folk vocabulary".

It wont disappear, you watch. Flammable is much more likely to.

As long as no-one equates "inflammable" with "non-flammable", it's fine.
But anyone who thinks they are safe with a product that is (wrongly)
labelled "inflammable" is in for a nasty surprise. There was a big
campaign about "inflammable" as part of product labelling a few years ago.

And that had no effect on what happens with the language.

It's like when you're in Germany and need an emergency exit, you have to
tell yourself that "Notausgang" does *not* mean "this is *not* an
emergency exit - find another way out" but instead means "this is the
emergency exit", because "Not" is German for "emergency". The same is true
in either Norway or Denmark (I forget which), except it's "nod" rather
than "not" followed by their word for "exit". Strange the things you
notice on coach trips - because I always have a quick look when I get on a
coach or a train to see where the emergency exits are. Not that I'm
obsessed, but I have a quick glance as I'm walking down the aisle.

We dont have that problem in english.