sometimes its
un-
like unhealthy
sometimes it's
in-
like inappropriate
sometimes it's
dis-
like disfunctional
So we have inflammable, meaning easy to burn
Memory Tip: an infection is inflamed and the skin is hot to the touch
During World War 2 there was confusion about combustibles when some interpreted inflammable to mean not flammable (sometimes "in-" means not)
So flammable was used more and more frequently, until by the 1970s "inflammable" was completely phased out, and the negative was non-flammable.
Imflammable is just an error in spelling
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