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ShortNCuddlyAm · 03-21-2010, 07:34 PM

Not a word, but a suffix - the unthinking and careless burdening of otherwise harmless, maybe even useful, words with -ise/ize. As in "It is the human resources department's role to incentivise staff"

03-21-2010, 07:34 PM	#32
ShortNCuddlyAm WWHALD Posts: 7,879 Karma: 337114 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Mitcham, Surrey, UK Device: iPad. Selling my silver 505 here	Not a word, but a suffix - the unthinking and careless burdening of otherwise harmless, maybe even useful, words with -ise/ize. As in "It is the human resources department's role to incentivise staff"