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antigone
2007-01-17 09:47 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, I thought it was supposed to be "burgled" but I just looked it up and dictionary.com tells me that Burgle means "To burglarize" so it must be a word.

I'm impressed they used the correct term and didn't say "robbed." As, robbery is when money is forcefully taken (like a gunpoint), burglary is when they sneeeaaaaak away with it to the tune of 'do-do-do-do-dooooo-dodododo.' That is my understanding anyway.

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	darkeyes 2007-01-17 10:19 pm UTC (link)
	Curious. I've never heard anyone use the world 'burgled' before. If I hadn't just looked it up, I would have thought it didn't exist. Conversely, we use burglarise (with an s) all the time. Maybe it's British thing. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	entelodont 2007-01-17 10:25 pm UTC (link)
	See, I though burgle was more of a British thing. I've always heard "burglarize". Probably one of those regional things. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	moonjaguar 2007-01-18 12:54 am UTC (link)
	Me too, I always read and heard "burglarize" in the news. "Burgle" makes me think of Hamburglar (robble robble). (Reply to this)(Parent)

	influencethis 2007-01-18 02:34 am UTC (link)
	Completely unrelated to anything, but I'm reading the book your icon is from for class and I squeed when I saw the cover on the school's bookstore website, because, hey, reading good sci-fi for class! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	darkeyes 2007-01-18 03:54 am UTC (link)
	Octavia Butler is love! ^__^ (Reply to this)(Parent)

	big_bad_wolf 2007-01-21 09:23 pm UTC (link)
	In what part of Britain is it a British thing? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	akairis 2007-01-17 10:51 pm UTC (link)
	I suspect "burgle" is a backformation, but hey, it's not like anyone complains anymore that "peddle" isn't a word. one jaunt through the dictionary later Yep, "burglar" came first, then "burgle" by analogy. And the history of the word "burglar", for its part, should prove once and for all to everyone that English speakers are a silly lot. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	black_spot 2007-01-17 11:30 pm UTC (link)
	It’s in my dictionary as US and Canadian, but I’ve only really heard Bush ‘ize’ so many words that impressionist here have him saying nearly every word like that. “I runnized down the road, before I noticized the door to my flat had been openized….” You get the drift? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	moonjaguar 2007-01-18 12:56 am UTC (link)
	“I runnized down the road, before I noticized the door to my flat had been openized….” ROFLOLded!!! (I could see Bush doing just that though. Eep). (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	antigone 2007-01-18 07:34 am UTC (link)
	And then he goes, "I was not unpissed off..." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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