Orient Versus Orientate; A Biztip Reader: “Could you comment on the use of ‘orient’ and ‘orientate’? I have always used orient and it drives me nuts to hear orientate, verbal and written.”; Biztip Response: This is the third question I have received on these words this week.
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Sometimes people in their speech will form an imagined verb from orientation and say orientate. At best, orientate is a back-formation used humorously to make the speaker sound pompous. The correct word is the verb orient.
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englishplus.com/grammar/00000245.htm
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Printer Friendly Version ... Frequently Asked Questions ... It really doesn't matter: it's a matter of personal taste. Orientated is currently preferred use in general British use. Oriented is prevalent in technical use, and in the US.
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www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutgrammar/orient...
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'Orient' is mostly a transitive verb; it takes a direct object. 'Orientate' is mostly an intransitive verb--no direct object. Nevertheless, many people use them interchangeably or use one exclusively. Me, I find myself using 'orient' no matter what.
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c2.com/cgi/wiki?OrientedVsOrientated
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Letters to the Editor of Take Our Word For It, the only weekly word-origin webzine ... Regarding orientate vs. orient, I had a discussion about this with a co-worker several months ago. After consulting a dictionary, we came to the following conclusion: if you have been oriented, you've been introduced to a new situation;
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Club Orient vs. GL Braco ... For reviews, trip reports and pictures regarding Green Cay, LaPlantation, and L'Hoste, as well as Club Orient and Grand Lido Braco, go to our home page, at http://www.info-res.com/ehill; Any comparison of Grand Lido Braco vs. Club Orient is very much comparing apples and oranges.
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Dane Richard's reviews "one of the best essays of the year" — High church vs. low church conservatism. "...[T]he philosophy [Burke] espoused, most famously in Reflections, was a high church conservatism to match his High Church Anglicanism," writes Mr. McCarthy.
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