The opposite of "on" is off, and vis-versa. So if something is not "on", it's "off". So why do we say "not on-time" instead of "off-time" or "do not have time-off" instead of "have time-on"? And why do "on-time" and "time-off" have nothing to do with each other?
Strange...very strange....
Posted by enigma at January 16, 2004 06:12 PMWhy do you deplane but not deship? Why does flamible and inflamible mean the same thing? Or catenate and concatenate? And what about all those words that exist only in a negative. When you first get dressed in the morning, are you sheveled?
Posted by: Tim Budd at January 22, 2004 10:21 PM