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doo doo doot doo…
Just to clarify one recurring point:
Standard UK utilizationage: “orientated” and “obliged”
Standard US utilizationage: “oriented” and “obligated”
I call it “the migrating ‘at’” (in the same way the S migrates in “math/sports” and “maths/sport”).
I’ve been known to say “mis-CHEE-vee-us” for comic effect, but only to people who know better and know I do too.
That’s really neat (UK). A pattern satisfactorily removes the cringe factor. Thank you so much.
In the 100,000-word document I’m now proofreading (I almost typed “100,000-page” … that’s what it feels like), I’m not supposed to be looking for style (as opposed to punctuation, typography, and glaring grammar mistakes); however, I have now corrected several instances of “utilize” and “utilization.”
“Use.” Three letters. Utilize it.
Done some proof-reading myself and it’s so difficult to ignore style - people who think style is about size of words utilised shouldn’t be writing 100,000 word documents.
‘Use’ is an unpretentious word and it works.
Then there’s the ‘s’ / ‘z’ dilemma (utilise/organise/recognise), which, in England, manages to identify which school/university the user attended. England / language / snobbery - there’s an unusual combination.
Canadian trends I’ve noticed:
The one that really pisses me off is when some dork says “Can you borrow me £5 until tomorrow”
It’s not borrow you dipstick it’s LEND or LOAN you £5 until tomorrow, you are the borrower I am the lender [if you are lucky]
Another new book griping about poor English utilizationage: Between You and I.
I’m tempted to take up John Humphreys’ offer (in the Introduction) of a free bottle of bubbly to anyone who can explain how “met up with” differs from just plain “met”, but somehow I doubt he was serious.
A****, the same A****(why are we doing this?) that distributes major electronics parts and has headquarters in New York and Denver?
So that other A**** employees who Google for mentions of the company won’t find a post on a message board where another employee basically pinpoints his position and makes fun of various people either in the company currently or joining soon.
You’re all a bunch o’ A**** 
I don’t think the gag works when it’s on a different page than the setup 
Wow, the first time I get to use the :smack: smiley… Thanks.
Well, that and the fact that the OP posted to an internet message board during (time zone differences possibly negating this) working hours. I sure wouldn’t want my boss finding a post where I named my employing corporation, described what I did for the company and pinpointing my position, described a co-worker or possible co-worker in unflattering terms, and did this during my salaried time.
*note: this is not a criticism of the OP, merely an acknowledgment of my understanding of his/her reluctance to explicitly name his/her employer…
‘The dipshit account executive we occasionally do work for’
A similar dipshit I once worked with couldn’t understand why her phone call to a DIY store to ask whether they had dildo rails in stock, produced nothing but hysterical giggling.
“Use the right word, not its second cousin.”
-The eternally quotable Mark Twain.