Funny word of the day

I believe the last funny word that I mentioned here was 'smurf'. Say it several times slowly and you will see that it is a ridiculous collection of letters.

Today's funny word is 'burgled'. What a strange sound! This word came up while discussing alarm systems, and how ours was present and not active until one day we were burglarized at which point the alarm was immediately turned on (i.e. we got off our asses and read the manual on how to set it). This made me wonder whether it is 'burglarized', or 'burgled'. As it turns out, burgle is a back formation of burglar (just as edit is a back formation of editor, or so I've heard). It means exactly the same thing as burglarize. Both of which, if you ask me, are very strange and funny sounding words, although I prefer burgle from the amusement point of view.

I know I know...simple things amuse me :-P At the very least I won't easily be bored!