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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"Here's my understanding: A voter is simply an individual person who votes, or potentially votes.. An electorate is a defined geographic area that votes for the outcome of a single seat, or a set of seats.
- What's the difference between denizen, resident, inhabitant?Citizen, as here compared, ... applies to a resident of a city or town, especially to one of full age who enjoys the right to vote and other privileges; [example omitted]. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms (1984) has a nearly identical treatment of the first three words, suggesting that the distinctions didn't change much (in MW's ...
- What is the difference between "citizen" and "denizen"A citizen of the United States is a legal resident who has been processed by the government as being a member of the United States. A denizen of the United States is simply someone that lives there. Technically speaking, one could never be, for example, a citizen of the Earth -- but we're all denizens of the Earth.
- etymology - Why is the inhabitant of a country called a “citizen ...OED has a note on citizen: The semantic development has been influenced by classical Latin cīvis (see civic adj.) It seems like the semantic drift in citizen, civilian, civic, etc. from "city-dweller" to one with legal rights within any governed community involves both legal and military history.
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