What's wrong with burgling?

[PrettyCandles]

What's wrong with 'burgling', that people have to use 'burglarise'?

Are we going to have 'burglariser' next?

Harumph!

[YankNCock]

It might be US cop shows. 'Burglarize' is the way I would have said it before I lived in the UK. The first time I heard 'burgled', I really thought someone was saying it wrong.

[poppyknot]

Apparently 'burgling' is a back formation from burglar - but that doesn't make burglarise any better!

[poppyknot]

'Burglar' just looks too strange now. Maybe it's the time of night......

[Tortington]

burglarise makes my foot itch.

[YankNCock]

Ooh ooh, while we're here, can someone explain to me why people here say 'pressurise' as in 'Don't pressurise me' or 'I felt pressurised'. Why is it not 'Don't pressure me' and 'I felt pressured'?

Now the word 'pressure' looks weird to me. Must go to bed.

[YankNCock]

Bluddy, yes, it is American English. I've never heard anyone say it over here either.

[PrettyCandles]

Oh dear. I just Googled burgle. Now I need the brain bleach.

[YankNCock]

Pass the brain bleach this way please.

[PrettyCandles]

I say "pressured" etc when referring to inter-personal relations.

"Pressurised" generally relates to gasses under pressure, or, more specifically, their container.

[YankNCock]

Exactly, PrettyCandles, that's how I would use it too. So all these people I hear saying 'pressurised' are, in fact, just wrong. That makes me feel better. I thought I was going to have to make another uncomfortable vocabulary/accent adjustment. GAR-age still doesn't fit as comfortably on my tongue as ga-RAGE.