pressurise uncommon?

[mkenuk]

re yesterday's purifies 7bm game

pressurise was played by just under 50% of those playing this game (154 from 339) Even spies had only a few more hits (163)
The word itself is hardly unknown - you hear it in the pre-flight announcements every time you are on an aircraft - 'The air in the cabin is pressurized......'
I know the trend these days is to spell such words with an ...ize ending, but I rather had the feeling that Chi gave both forms equal status. Surely pressurize is not also 'rare'??

[jancsika]

I thought the same. Is there a process of having rare words reclassified as common, rather than vice versa?

[mkenuk]

Rare words can be reclassified as common - a fairly recent example was selfie, which, like most new arrivals started its life in Chi's Lexicon as 'rare' but was inevitably 'upped' after a while.
Perhaps we might pressurize /pressurise Alan into doing the same here......
 

[ridethetalk]

...and, if he fails to meet our demands, we could repressurise him though that would apparently be unknown...