From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!csu-cs!silver Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: an obnoxious observation about prefixes Article-I.D.: csu-cs.1956 Posted: Mon Jan 3 09:34:10 1983 Received: Tue Jan 4 04:38:47 1983 "obnoxious" and "noxious" don't mean the same exact thing, but they're almost identical, no? And doesn't "ob" usually mean negation?