To ask why some people on Mumsnet say “pressurised” instead of “pressured”?

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As in, “My EXH pressurised me to agree to 50/50 custody,” or “My mother is pressurizing me to let her move in.”

I’m in the US, but I read a lot of UK media and websites, and Mumsnet is the only place I’ve ever seen this.

Why do Americans use normalcy rather than normality?
Linguistic difference, Google can help.

Because it's a valid word? I would say, as a sweeping generalisation, pressurised is possibly used by an older demographic. I think it's the British version of pressured, which has become more popular.

But I could be talking bollocks.

Thanks. 🙂 I would generally just chalk it up as a British English thing, except that, as I said, Mumsnet is the only place I’ve ever seen it. I read British news sites every day, so if “pressured” has become more popular, that might explain why I’ve only seen it on Mumsnet. Mumsnet is people writing the way they talk, whereas news sites go through editors who might have decided they prefer “pressured” over “pressurized.”

"Pressurised" seems more like a scientific word, like 'a pressurised canister' or something. So I guess it's just slightly inappropriate use of language. I'm surprised you even noticed as it clearly means the same thing when used in context of a person being made to do something.

Im a word geek and a pedant but pressured vs pressurized/pressurised is something Ive never noticed on MN rather than anywhere else. Totally a non issue.

And some of the written English on some of the news sites leaves a lot to be desired. But I am old and cranky, so I notice it - not that I read them all that often.

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I always say pressurised. I'm not sure I had even noticed pressured as an alternative but it sounds a bit odd . Pressed maybe - I am pressed for time .