Well, many language (ab)users can’t see the difference between
‘thanks to’ and ‘due to’/‘because of’/‘owing’
“his death was thanks to substandard care at the hospital”
“thanks to a knee injury he couldn’t participate in the marathon race”
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Ever met an "ept’ person who liked to make “ane” comments?
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No, I haven’t
BUT
I could totally consider messing around with such language inconsistencies
aptus or apt exists/existed,
used in aptitude so ept could be considered valid
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I have met an inept person who made inane comments….
This thread is fascinating but equally hard to keep up with the twists and changes of direction.
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The RobWords Youtube channel has a video on the “Mysterious Case of the Lost Positive”, which looks at words with a negative prefix that no longer (or never did) have a positive form without the prefix.
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The infantry instructor initiated invigorating morning 5 mile runs.
He wanted all to feel included so the invite went out to all on the base.
The instructor was initially incredulous when his inspired initiative
did not incite any interest.
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Clearly my knowledge about British fuel containers is…flimsy 
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you can hear that Gif even without sound 
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WAH-WAH-WAAAAAAHHHH!
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Jeez tough crowd! I was going to make some inflammatory comments but you guys poured cold water over that idea 
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