Antonyms
flammable:inflammable
regardless:irregardless
Genuity:ingenuity
eros:Aneros
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comment by sl:
In my haste to search the internet for another clever example ... I ran across the following: http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/Healey-adventus-internetus
comment by Mikey Jo:
eros:Aneros
Such are the horrible wages of smashing Greek and Latin words together.
Adventus Internetus by Sebbo:
I feel well and truly updiked.
comment by q:
"Eros" and "an-" as a negation are both Greek.
comment by Mikey Jo:
Dear q,
I know they are, but I don't think the makers of the Aneros were actually trying to claim that their product is anerotic. What they were presumably doing was trying to fuse "anal" (Latin) with "eros" (Greek), and just look at the trouble it's caused! Not least this minor flame war here.
MJ