Cop speak is great. You know what I am talking about. Whenever you see the local cops on the news, describing an incident, they use overly flowery and official sounding language, peppered with made up words that only the high school educated could use with a straight face. Now burgle and burgled are two of my favorite words, but burglarous? Come on BPD, now you are just making shit up.
Ernesto Caraballo, 25, of Chelsea, was arrested for Attempted Breaking & Entering, Possession of Burglarous Tools, and Assault & Battery with Dangerous Weapon at approximately 8:30am on Trenton Street in East Boston. Caraballo was observed attempting to pry a car window open with a screwdriver. When the victim approached Caraballo, he was threatened with the screwdriver. A neighbor who witnessed the incident quickly dialed 911. The victim was not injured.
Again, I guess we should cut them some slack when it comes to wording. They must get tired of finding new ways to title posts “Shooting On Blue Hill Ave” without screwing up permalinks, so throwing in some fake words now and again is just their way of blowing off some steam.
July 26th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
Burglarous is a word. Do a search for it in Google - it’s used in a bunch of legal documents.
September 4th, 2006 at 8:44 pm
do your research before you post accusations
September 5th, 2006 at 9:32 am
Ok, two things. One, using a word over and over, regardless of its existence or not (I am talking to you Law Enforcement) doesn’t just turn it into an acceptable word.
And two, research? There is no such word as burglarous. At least not according to the DICTIONARY.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Burglarous
September 8th, 2006 at 3:53 pm
Pigs spell bad
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/burglarious
So… it is a word; however it was misspelled frequently. And in case you were wondering, I still check out your posts so keep them coming. Your blogs are as fresh as Taco Bell commercials.