There’s a joke that goes like this, “If pro and con are opposites, does that mean that congress is the opposite of progress?”
And everyone has a little, superior, yes-doesn’t-government-mess-everything-up chuckle about the state of things.
But there are more words, aren’t there, that alter the supposed antonymity (cool word, huh? I think I just made it up – at least spell-check doesn’t recognize it) of the two when used as prefixes.
What, exactly, is the relation between
constitution, the Constitution and prostitution?
Confound it, that’s profound.
How about the professional in the confessional? Or the professor as confessor.
ReplyDeleteOr, more distant, but I wish I could make them go together: conflagration and profligate. I'll mull it over.