Burglarize

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Marti L." <marti.lewis at ...> 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.

Geoff:
My original point, picking up on a list in a previous post, was that I 
had never come across 'burglarise' in UK English. I never implied that it 
wasn't a word. I merely felt that the verb 'burgle' sounds better.....

...to UK ears at least.