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Blaziken rjcf wrote: Madlooney6 wrote: I didn't realise, sorry. I heard burglarized on Family Guy and I just thought it is burgled, not burglarized.

It's just a different region, so different words are used. For example, I prefer using "z" to "s", simply because I like the letter "z" more. I also like "Math" instead of "Maths", because "Maths" just sounds weird. However, I don't care much for color/colour and other such words, although the "ugh" in "doughnut" is just unnecessary, IMO. I find the z instead a s annoying when I actually put s in the word and it changes to a z. Onto the subject of doughnuts/donuts. Going by written records, Doughnut is the older spelling (earliest record of the word doughnut is in a short story from 1808, it is referenced the year later in Washington Irving's History of New York), Donut appeared at 92 years later (the first record of the word donut was in Peck's Bad Boy and his Pa by George W. Peck in 1900, it stayed rare until 1950). The word doughnut is used internationally whilst donut is American.