I understand these are two different words but pretty much mean the same thing. Is one more proper than the other, what’s the difference?
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There’s no difference. It’d be logically proper to use “thaw”.
Thaw and unthaw both mean to return to an unfrozen state.
Unthaw is like saying irregardless.
You understand what someone is trying to say but you know it doesnt make sense linguistically.
Thaw is more proper, but people have used unthaw to mean the same thing for so long that there’s no stopping it. (First use of unthaw in OED is 1598.)
That is correct. Unthaw is wrong. End of story. Just because it’s persisted in use doesn’t make it right, any more than writing “should of” instead of “should have”. To the is to bring something out of a frozen state. To unthaw should of used properly, mean to freeze it again. People don’t understand language, so they make that error.
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