AND if you are mouldering in prison for some detestibble criem - I won't be labelled discriminatory, I AM discriminatory, I just don't want to be labelled.
I am gathering words that mean one thing, but aught to mean something else, or could mean something else. Any ideas?
A word that comes to mind is INFLAMMABLE, which, so supposed the literary elite, the great mass of ill-educated villeinage was likely to misinterpret as non-flammable. Hence the now widespread, if not universal, ‘flammable’ in warnings. I remember when this freshly-coined word started appearing on notices. The once common ‘inflammable’ is rarely seen anymore. If ignorance avoidance were deemed more practical than education, I might have chosen either ‘combustible’, or ‘highly combustible’ as most appropriate for the circumstance, but my meagre credentials in this regard did not permit my participation in the discussion.