Ize (was: Re: Herb - Now Aluminum)
Geoff Bannister
gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk
Sun Sep 16 19:37:45 UTC 2007
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady at ...>
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> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
> <gbannister10@> wrote:
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> > The only word in this lot which is famliiar to me as a UK English
> > speaker is 'hospitalise' which has been around a long time.
>
> And bowdlerize.
Geoff:
Granted, 'bowdlerise' has been around for a while but it wasn't in the
list quoted in the post I was reading.
Don't forget that that is an unusual one because it is formed from
someone's name, so the ending is probably a requirement. It can go
in the miscellaneous box along with 'boycott', 'maverick'. 'gerrymander'
et al.
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