The spell-checker on my Microsoft Word 2000 program questioned my use of the word "inobvious" and recommended that I use "unobvious" insted. Ready to ridicule the byte-heads at Microsoft, I consulted the One-Look On-Line Dictionary and it told me that there is no such word. Alas. Can it be? I have used this word for decades. Am I speaking English here?
OED doesn't even have it. Have you checked wwftd? Or maybe you should switch to disobvious (pre-cross-threading).
MSW and OED may fail you, but you will no doubt be pleased to learn that the US end-all-and-be-all of lexicons (W3I) gives inobvious, with the obvious etymology in + obvious but no citations.
I'm feeling much better already.
Padre
Hey maybe they'll cite you and you can be even more famous.
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
~ Cato the Elder
See now, that's why you need a monument.
I have no clue who Cato the Elder. Now if he had a monument, I'd go, "ooo, who was he, and why was he special enough to earn a monument?"
Ah yes, old "Carthago delenda est" himself. Bumptious, conservative to a fault and as full of Roman gravitas as any modern prig ...
And the grandson wasn't much better, either!
I suspect you're thinking of his great-grandson: Cato the Younger, die-hard (quite literally) opponent of Julius Caesar.
Bingley
Yeah, yeah. Cato the Toddler. Waddever. It was all a bit before my time. Bruce Willis would have approved, n'est-ce pas? Cato II died hard, and with a vengeance!
*wonders what it would be like to spend the rest of eternity with an obelisk crushing one's skull*
*makes a mental note to ask Joan how painful her last bar-b-q was to see if it would compare*