Quote Originally Posted by Popoki_Nui
I was behind a gasoline tanker truck yesterday...on the back was a huge red sign saying "Danger Inflammable"

Inflammable..?

I thought gasoline was highly flammable.....

(ok, it probably comes from the root "inflame", but it seems so...bass ackwards somehow...)

S.
inflammable was a word before flammable was. So many people got it mixed up that flammable is now considered a proper word.