On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:38:53 +0100, Johny B Good wrote:

On 28 Apr 2014 20:20:43 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:

On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:31:47 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 28/04/14 19:58, Davey wrote:
On 28 Apr 2014 16:53:46 GMT Huge wrote:

On 2014-04-28, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:48:51 +0100, Davey wrote:

I heard 'boo-ey' all over the country, unfortunately. And it is
'burglarize', surely?

The brilliant thing about "burglarize" is how they then backfilled
the language to justify it.

You're not burgled, you're "burglarized".
You don't catch a burglar, you catch a "burglarizer".
You're not locked up for burglary, but "burglarization".

AAeeeiii!!!!



At its most fundamental, even 'Transportation', as in 'Department
of',
is a symptom of this. And I hear that over here now, too.

"would sir require transportating to his destination?"

"Take to the department of transportatingation"

Sorry, a 'Sortation Facility'.

That's a rather clumsy attempt at avoiding any association with the
Royal Mail. Using 'Sortation Facility' as a **** poor substitute for the
perfectly descriptive "Sorting Office".

No, it's just US English.



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