Hey, Americans

[greyarea]

From this article:

The Blazer drove away, and the trooper found his car had been burglarized and his wife's wallet stolen.

Burglarized? WTF? Is this a word commonly used in the US?

Comments

[oletheros]

yeap. it's a beast of a word, but it is in frequent use.

[greyarea]

It is indeed a beast of a word. Quite horrible. Is it used instead of or in addition to "burgled"?

[oletheros]

you don't hear burgled very much over here these days, unless it's in reference to a hamburger.

[kittenexploring]

What else would you use when someone has been Burglarisated?

[greyarea]

If it's a person, one would presume they'd been robberized ;-)

[kittenexploring]

It was a car, though. I think it's a grey area, greyarea. House burglarisated, person robberisated, car I think is close to burglerisation but I would accept robberisation if I was being pinched.