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Originally Posted by kennyc
I would have thought a downpour would put out the inferno..... 
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Perhaps worth noting, from an etymological viewpoint, that the term "inferno", as used by Dante, had nothing to do with fire; it simply meant (in Latin) "of the lower regions" (ie hell). It was only in the mid 19th century that "inferno" came to mean a fire in English, from the supposed characteristics of those "lower regions".