[HPFGU-OTChatter] Burglarize

[Janette]

On 9/17/07, Marti L. <marti.lewis at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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.


montims:
but again you are looking in an American dictionary.  If a Brit says a word
isn't used in England, it's more useful to consult an English (vs American
English) dictionary.

For example, Chambers shows:
burgle verb (*burgled*, *burgling*) *1* to enter (a building, etc) illegally
and steal from it; to steal from someone or something. *2* *intrans* to
commit burglary. *US equivalent* *burglarize*.
ETYMOLOGY: 19c: a back-formation from
burglar<http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/features/chref/chref.py/main?xref=21C05469&title=21st&query=burglar>
.
burglarize verb (*burglarized*, *burglarizing*) *tr & intr*, *US* to burgle.

ETYMOLOGY: 19c.
Sorry, no entries for *burglarise* were found.

NOBODY in England would say burglarize, unless they were trying to be
mock-American.

Oh and while I'm posting - someone had said that Stephen Fry (bless him) had
pronounced Sirius differently than Brits were saying it is pronounced, and
it was mentioned that he is posh.  I haven't heard the tapes, as I can't
afford them, so cannot confirm or deny his pronunciation, but posh has its
own separate pronunciation - this is not standard, and it is not a way a
normal person can speak, but by and large it is understandable.  For example
the royal family pronouncing ow as eye - hice, trisers, etc...


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