It’s bullshit that the opposite of “impeachable” is “unimpeachable” instead of “peachable”
Ehh, at least we don’t randomly assign every noun one of three genders, and have to memorize them all in order to use the correct form of “the” when speaking about it.
Also, “gruntled” should be the opposite of “disgruntled”.
It is, check the OED.
Well I’ll be damned. I’ve used it as a word regardless, lol, but my spell check still hasn’t gotten the memo apparently.
So, would you say you’re more gruntled now?
It’s because the im isn’t a prefix but part of the word. (It was originally spelt empeche)
Ackshully:
Looking at the etymology, impeach is from old-french “empecher”, and “em” was an alternative form of the old-french prefix “en”.
And “empecher” is itself is derived from the late latin “impedicare”, which uses the Latin prefix “im” from which the French prefix comes. And is prefixed to “predica”.
So it it is a prefix.
Of course, the latin (and French) prefixes aren’t used to indicate opposite meaning, like “in” often is. But that’s just yet more bullshit.
I don’t hate it. Pretty gusting if you ask me.
I am demused. I can’t express my unappointment
The existence of “amused” implies the existence of “bimused”, “homomused”, “panmused” and possibly even more
I’m metromused
