On 20/04/12 03:59, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artÃ*culo , Frank
Erskine escribió:

...and "orient" rather than "orientate".

Not so sure about that one.

"When he emerged from the train station, it took him a moment to orient
himself."

"When he emerged from the train station, it took him a moment to
orientate himself."

The first sounds better to me.

Yes, orient is correct though now rare.

On the other hand neither sentence sounds right to me: it's a RAILWAY
STATION




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djc