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Originally Posted by Catlady
And we can presumably all agree that one should never say I could/couldn't care fewer.
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Since caring doesn't seem to be quantised, fewer is
definitely wrong.
inflammable's in- isn't the same as the in- of , say, invisible, but like the in- of indoctrinate.
flammable is the recently (1920s) introduced word to mean the same thing, as it's hard to misinterpret flammable, which it's possible to be mistaken about inflammable.