English is such a peach.

PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 222 points –

It's bullshit that the opposite of "impeachable" is "unimpeachable" instead of "peachable"

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Also, "gruntled" should be the opposite of "disgruntled".

It is, check the OED.

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.

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And something that has not been debunked is still bunk.

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