"Pressurize" ?????

[lord of the mark]

Here in the last best hope of mankind, the word pressurize usually means something you do to a chamber, with gases.


If one applie pressure to an individual or institution to do something, we say "The world community pressured Ethiopia to make a deal with Eritrea"


We do NOT say "The world community pressurized Ethiopia to make a deal with Eritrea"

Pressurizing Ethiopia would be a sci fi kind of thing ("more helium on Addis Abbaba")

Yet it seems that many english speakers do use "pressurize" that way. I think mainly in former UK colonies in asia and africa, but Im not sure its limited to that.

Do you use pressurize that way? Is it used that way where you live? What do you think?

[LordShiva]

I don't use it that way.

[ZEE]

pressurize:increase air pressure in enclosed space: to increase the air pressure in an enclosed space, for example, inside an aircraft, to maintain air at close to normal atmospheric pressure when the external pressure falls

[Hueij]

I can honestly say I never used the word pressurized. Pressurised maybe, but never pressurized.

[Dauphin]

Didn't you have a thread like this before. Or am I experiencing deja vu.

[Chemical Ollie]

I de-pressurize this thread

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Dauphin
Didn't you have a thread like this before. I am I experience deja vu.

I think I asked in the midst of another thread, and it was never answered.

Note, Pressurised OR Pressurized. I dont care about the spelling, thank you very much.

examples:

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/061210/3/2u5ys.html

http://in.news.yahoo.com/060917/43/67o8g.html

http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0319/mccartneyr.html

http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_060824mcdon.shtml

so there, look whos pressurized, the govt of Lebanon, a 63 YO Indian woman, the Irish Republican Army, and McDonalds. Which brings up alot of very unpleasant images to me.

[Dauphin]

It's a logically applicable extension for increasing pressure. I don't use it in that way, but I don't think it's necessarily wrong.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Dauphin
It's a logically applicable extension. I don't use it in that way, but I don't think it's necessarily wrong.

To my ears it sounds totally illiterate.

[Barnabas]

Native spanish speakers, often mistakenly use "pression" as in I was under a lot of pression

[Dauphin]

It has to be used correctly for it to sound 'right' to me.

The crowd pressured the politician.

The situation pressurised as the crowd got more vocal.

[Kidlicious]

I thought it was pressured.

[Spiffor]

Re: "Pressurize" ?????

Originally posted by lord of the mark
Do you use pressurize that way? Is it used that way where you live? What do you think?

I use the word "faire pression" about people. I use the word "pressuriser" about rooms.

I can mistakenly use "pressurize" in English, but maybe I won't anymore, thanks to this thread

[-Jrabbit]

I've never seen these two terms confused with each other.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Hueij
I can honestly say I never used the word pressurized. Pressurised maybe, but never pressurized.

You must learn to use the letter "Z." Z's are cool!