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Bookmark or Share- Why isn't "citizen" spelled as "citisen" in British English?Analyze does have the -ize/-ise suffix, just a different spelling. From the OED: "On Greek analogies the vb. would have been analysize, Fr. analysiser, of which analyser was practically a shortened form, since, though following the analogy of pairs like annexe, annexe-r, it rested chiefly on the fact that by form-assoc. it appeared already to belong to the series of factitive vbs. in -iser ...
- Difference between "voters", "electorates" and "constituents"Arguably it doesn't include some "non-citizens" (illegal aliens, temporary residents, etc.). The quoted passage pluralises electorates to emphasise the "universality" of (any) Parliament's attitude to such (by way of contrast to politicians' attitudes, which are biased towards getting votes from them). –
- Why are the United States often referred to as America?Before the United States Civil War (1861–1865), we referred to our Republic as "these United States of America" and people called themselves citizens of the state they lived in. After it was demonstrated that the individual states had been assimilated, the reference changed to "the United States of America".
- What's the difference between denizen, resident, inhabitant?With regard to the dictionary's observation that inhabitant and denizen are sometimes applied to animals as well as persons, I note that Shakespeare memorably uses citizen in the same way, in As You Like It (act II, scene II), where a lord in the banished duke's circle reports the reaction of Jaques to encountering a mortally wounded deer in the forest of Arden:
- What is the difference between "citizen" and "denizen"Subjects and citizens are alike those whose relation to the state is personal and not merely territorial, permanent and not merely temporary. This equivalent, however, is not absolute. For in the first place, the term subject is commonly limited to monarchical forms of government, while the term citizen is more specially applicable in the case ...
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