Burglarize

[Marti L.]

Burglarize is a word, and I have used it, because my apartment was
broken into twice during the early 1980s.

See:  http://tinyurl.com/2pvosg <http://tinyurl.com/2pvosg>

It has definitions from different dictionaries.  The first one says that
its origin was American 1870-1875.  This is not new.  I wonder why it is
annoying to anyone (was the original poster about this British,
perhaps?).  The dictionaries include the British spelling:  burglarise.

There are new words out there that were developed recently that I abhor
and strike me as being newspeak to fool the public and/or make an act of
government sound less harmful.

Speaking of accents, I hate hearing the spread of the valley girl
dialect and upspeak.  I heard a lot of upspeak (a statement becomes a
question) years ago when I was going to a university in Greensboro, NC. 
Now I hear the valley girl dialect on the streets of NYC by
20-somethings from all over the country.  Some people outgrow the use of
it.

Marti,
who understands that sometimes people get annoyed by everybody.



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