On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 08:47:58 -0700, harry wrote:

On Apr 20, 12:19Â*pm, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
dennis@home wrote:

"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message
...
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."

8

The first sounds better to me.

better than "it took him a moment to become oriental"?

Er

better than "it took him a moment to become Oriental"?

The capital is important as in "to orient oneself towards the Orient,
is to become an Oriental' blah blah.

The word you seek is "orientate".
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...lish/orientate

Orient(e) is East. In several European languages.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...rient?q=orient

You ARE an ignorant old bugger aren't you? Well you never learn't
English language at Cambridge did you?

The nearest thing to a definitive view is Fowler. And he says that
'orient' is the early form, with 'orientate' a French-derived
alternative. And that either form is acceptable (although he prefers
'orient').



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