On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:29:30 +0100, charles
wrote:

In article ,
Frank Erskine wrote:
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:59:11 +0100, Mike Tomlinson
wrote:

En el artículo , 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.

"Train station" is even worse.
I was interested in the announcment at Waterloo "this train terminates
here". It would have been interesting if it hadn't.

Having grown up in a suburb where the trains all terminated at
Waterloo, the first time I travelled from south of the river to
Victoria and learned I would be passing _through_ Waterloo without
stopping, I became quite anxious - until I discovered how this
happened.

Nick