>>>>BTW I don't know why we say "later on" most of the time. There is no "later off" or, indeed, any other type of later.
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>>>What's the reverse of "appoint"?
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>>Sack? Fire?
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>OK, you didn't buy this one. But was "disappoint" a close candidate?

(groan) No i wasn't on that wavelength :-)

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>>What's the sig. of that?
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>Close to zero. Just another example of logic vs history - words which would be antonyms by construction often aren't even related. Cf. barred vs disbarred.

Aye but not fair this example. Lawyers can be disbarred because they are originally "called to the bar" (ie qualify) - whatever that bar is/was originally.

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>>>Or, why are people feeling bad when they're p'd off? Would they feel better if they were p'd on?
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>>Americanism often misses out the "off" bit nowadays, nicht wahr, but the word alone in anglo means "drunk" (innebriated)
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>Yep, I remember that one, all my Dutch and German friends used to... use the word in that way.