[meteorite-list] Orientated.

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>From: Jonathan Gore <jonathan301 at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: jonathan301 at earthlink.net
>CC: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Orientated.
>Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 00:26:41 -0500
>
>  [Q] From David Holland: “I am uneasy about the word orientated as in 
>business-orientated. I feel the word should be oriented. Am I right, wrong, 
>pedantic, or what?”
>
>[A] We have a minor oddity here, in that both orient and orientate come 
>from the same French verb, orienter, but were introduced at different 
>times, the shorter one in the eighteenth century and the longer in the 
>middle of the nineteenth. There’s been a quiet war going on between the two 
>of them ever since. I tend to use oriented and orientated pretty 
>indiscriminately myself, choosing the shorter one when it seems to fit the 
>flow of the sentence. Robert Burchfield, in the Third Edition of Fowler’s 
>Modern English Usage, says “one can have no fundamental quarrel with anyone 
>who decides to use the longer of the two words”. But all this is a British 
>view, since here orientated is common; in the US it is less so and 
>considered much less a part of the standard language. So, as always, it’s 
>as much a case of who you are writing for and where you are doing so.
>
>Source: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-ori1.htm
>
>McCartney Taylor wrote:
>>Hate to bust everyone's bubble, but orientated is a word.  But I don't 
>>think you mean to use it.
>>
>>http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=orientated
>>
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