Monday, March 21, 2005

Would like to know

Has "burglarized" been made a word while I wasn't looking? Has it become ok, at least for Americans, to pretend you need to verbify the noun, rather than using the perfectly good verb from which the noun originally sprang? (Or the other way round. I don't much care.) Why do I keep seeing this acyrological* abomination in print? Who said it was allowed? And why weren't they immediately smacked down by the Subs of Wrath?

Postscript: apparently it is acceptable US usage, which tells you all you need to know. Bloody flatulopetic* Yanks.

_____
* This post did not in fact start as a way to use the worthless words for recent days. But it turned out to be a good way to use them. I couldn't find an elegant way to work in lexicographicology, though.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So, if i steal your stuff, i must be a burglarist, and not a burglar.

But then what word do you use to tell me apart from a sympathiser of the age-old crime of burglarism?

Honestly, the world is getting thicker by the day.