[Lexicog] Re: "orientate" (was Frequency ...)

[Mike Maxwell]

John Roberts wrote:
> Mike seemed to be suggesting that this was a recent
> "corruption" of the English language.

Indeed I did.  Again, to quote that famous linguist Henry Higgins, "Why
can't the English learn to speak?"  (And of course the correct form,
'orient', pre-dates the incorrect form 'orientate' by at least a hundred
years, according to the OED citations posted here.)

In terms of articulatory phonetics, I'm saying all of this with an
intermolar lateral.
--
	Mike Maxwell
	Linguistic Data Consortium
	maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu


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