On Aug 6, 9:54, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Patrick Rigney wrote:
> > James Sissel wrote"
> >
> > > > My pet peeve is people who don't know the difference between
your and
> > > > you're.
> >
> > Mine is "utilize" and all its forms. What is wrong with "use"?
> Mine is Architected. It always makes me think of someone bludgeoning
> people by swinging an architect around by his/her ankles...
Mine is "burglarized" (or "-ised"). The noun is "burglar", the verb is
"burgle", and the past tense is "burgled". "To burglarize" would be to
turn someone into a burglar.
On Aug 6, 13:00, John Lawson wrote:
> "Verbing nouns wierds language"
Indeed :-)
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Pete Peter Turnbull
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University of York
Received on Wed Aug 06 2003 - 15:08:00 BST