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English is such a peach. (lemmy.ca)

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

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[-] Prking@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago

It’s because the im isn’t a prefix but part of the word. (It was originally spelt empeche)

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