It’s bullshit that the opposite of “impeachable” is “unimpeachable” instead of “peachable”
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.
It’s bullshit that the opposite of “important” is “unimportant” instead of “portant”
Also, “gruntled” should be the opposite of “disgruntled”.
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.
Now do flammable!
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.
